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Wow, am I running late today. I spent most of the morning driving around with my adorable, freezing children who have forgotten what life is like outside the desert. It was a frigid 40 degrees in Dallas today, and we wandered up to our alma mater to pay the place, and our old professors, a visit. I got to spend almost an hour blissfully alone, talking with one of my favorite professors. He teaches poetry, and was the first professor to recognize and vehemently encourage my poetic talent. Sadly, he came to UD about a year before we left Texas, so I only had one class with him, but we try to catch up every time I'm in Texas. He and his wife and daughters are going to Italy to teach the Rome program next year, so it'll be a few years before I see him again.
It was really bittersweet to be on campus. It always is; I miss my college days and college friends with a nearly physical ache. It was one of the best times of my life, and I learned so much. At the same time, I had so many resources and so much knowledge available to me that I didn't reach out and take advantage of that sometimes I wish I could time travel back in time just to give my younger self a swift kick to the ass. But the bitterest part is knowing that we may never end up back at UD, even though our (mostly my) dream is for the Ogre to get tenure there and for us to never, ever leave that magical place. It's unlikely, though I have hope.
After this little intro, even though my quick takes were going to be random, I'm now feeling so nostalgic that I'm going to take a little trip down memory lane. So without further ado, here are the seven most
awesome idiotic interesting things I did in college (many of which I do not recommend doing and that my children will never know about).
|This is the most confusing cemetery in the world
with a random stranger in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
without a map.
We had planned out our day in Berlin to a T, actually. We were only going to be in Berlin for about eight hours and we wanted to get as much out of it as possible, so before we left Paris we sprang for an hour at an internet cafe to plan our day. We consulted a map of the city and found the train station that would be the closest to the wall. For some reason (actually, I think it was a deep-seated fear of encountering possible remnants of Communism) we planned on seeing the wall from West Berlin, so we decided on a railway stop in the western half of the city and wrote down directions from there.
Unfortunately we were so tired from two days of exploring Paris and two nights of drinking the best wine on God's green earth (that we could afford), that we slept right through our stop. The conductor kicked us awake (literally) just before they pulled out of the last station in Berlin. So we scrambled off the train and found ourselves freezing, disoriented, on the wrong side of the city and without a map. We looked down the street to our right and saw, about a half-mile off, a small stretch of blank gray wall. We looked at each other and then said, "There's no way that's the Berlin Wall." Then we went left.
After about two hours of wandering the desolate, gray streets of East Berlin we finally found a bridge that crossed to the western side of the city. It was the strangest experience, going over that bridge. The air was noticeably lighter when our feet crossed the border. The people smiled and were less dour. The shops were colored more brightly; it was almost as if the sun came out, even though it was gray and cloudy the whole time.
We finally found the wall after two and a half hours of walking and an hour of eating and hearty drinking to recuperate. We decided to follow it on the East Side, since the West side looked heavily graffitied and illegible. We crossed a bridge again and followed the wall up for miles and miles. It was amazing, and I'm so glad we chose to go up the Eastern side. It was so awesome to see the joy and exuberance in the murals done by a people who were so long oppressed.
After a few hours of walking and picture-taking, we reached a blank stretch of wall and happened to glance the other way, right at the train station where we had initially disembarked.
in our dorm room, with a full-size keg.
Should I be proud of this moment in my college life? Probably not. Am I?
These are intense classes, for those of you unfamiliar with the wonderful world that is UD. These are classes in which the student is immersed in poetry or the novel, expected to keep up with the usual amounts of reading, papers, coursework and tests, in addition to choosing a novel or poet of his or her own to focus on for a big, huge side-project. A side-project that encompasses a very long annotated bibliography, a huge paper, and oral exams.
I got A's in both classes.
And I did Junior Poet while pregnant with Sienna.
And for those UDers out there, since the question "who was your poet" is pretty much equivalent to asking "what's your sign" in the normal world, mine was Richard Wilbur.
Be still, my beating heart.
45 minutes from the city, in a snowstorm, overnight, with no money and only a backpack full of Cadbury chocolate from London to sustain three girls.
It was pretty awful, and only the more so because I had to call my parents and ask them if I could use their credit card to pay for our RyanAir tickets back to Rome since we had missed our flight by first missing our train out of Amsterdam, and then getting separated once we were in Brussels.
But we survived, my parents forgave me, I repaid them in grandchildren, and right now I'm eating a Cadbury Flake bar, which strangely has not lost it's appeal even though I probably ate about fifty of them on that long, cold night.
Met My True Love
He does carry a big giant wooden stick with spikes on it, though, which will come in handy when our girls start dating.
We met at the Cap Bar and fell in love over Henry V. Well, I fell in love while he repeatedly banged his head against the wall because I just would not budge in my hatred of Hal.
But that's a story for another day.
It was the most difficult decision of my life, and the one that required more upheaval, confrontation, soul-searching, inquiry and pain than any other I've made. Nevertheless, the Catholic Church has brought me more peace, hope, faith and wonder than I've ever known. It's driven me to become a better person, a better mother, a better wife and daughter.
I could go on and on about the joy I've found in Catholicism, but that, too, is a story for another day. Suffice it to say that my conversion would never have happened without UD, it's rigorous spirit of inquiry, it's core curriculum, it's wonderful professors with their amazing families, and it's honest, caring and devoted students.
The University of Dallas is truly a gem. I miss it the way I miss my family. I get homesick for the uneven and dangerous brick mall, the vine-covered and cigarette-strewn Cap Bar, the small and terribly overcrowded rooms in which I learned so much.
I wish I could go back, because there's so much more to learn and so many wonderful people from whom to learn it.
(Go see Jen for more quick takes! And good luck in the final days of Christmas preparations!)


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He's one of the most talented actors alive, as well as a member of the Saturday Night Live hosting pantheon. In short: Jon Hamm ruled long before he spoke to Great Britain's Elle magazine.
In the latest issue, though, the Mad Men star says exactly what anyone with an IQ over 12 is thinking: why do so many people care about Kim Kardashian and other reality stars?!?
"We're at a place where the idea of being 'elite' is somehow considered a negative," Hamm says. "Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated. Being a f-cking idiot is a valuable commodity in this culture because you're rewarded significantly... It doesn't make sense to me."
Mad Men premieres season five on March 25. Let's hope Hamm's rant just earned the tremendous show an even bigger following.
Pimp Kris and Seacrest are exploiting the Oj murders by introducing this nasty untalented bunch of jackasses.
Jon Hamm is sooooo right its about time someone said something about people like Kim Kardashian who make millions off of what!!!! she has no talent at all and to make the money that hole family makes for doing something that really any family can do.I can't believe that viewers are settling for this crap on TV like really people lets get back to the day's when hollywood had good old fashion movie stars that could act and have talent and made money they deserve.PLEASE TAKE THIS REALITY CRAP OFF THE AIR!!!!! we all deserve better programing.


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I'm trying to get the hang of moving objects (in general) and line strips (in particular) most efficiently in opengl and therefore I'm writing an application where multiple line segments are traveling with a constant speed from right to left. At every time point the left most point will be removed, the entire line will be shifted to the left, and a new point will be added at the very right of the line (this new data point is streamed / received / calculated on the fly, every 10ms or so). To illustrate what I mean, see this image:
Because I want to work with many objects, I decided to use vertex buffer objects in order to minimize the amount of
gl* calls. My current code looks something like this:
A) setup initial vertices:
# calculate my_func(x) in range [0, n]
# (could also be random data)
data = my_func(0, n)
# create & bind buffer
vbo_id = GLuint()
glGenBuffers(1, vbo_id);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo_id)
# allocate memory & transfer data to GPU
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(data), data, GL_DYNAMIC_DRAW)
B) update vertices:
# get new data and update offset
data = my_func(n+dx, n+2*dx)
# update offset 'n' which is the current absolute value of x.
n = n + 2*dx
# upload data
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo_id)
glBufferSubData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, n, sizeof(data), data)
# translate scene so it looks like line strip has moved to the left.
glTranslatef(-local_shift, 0.0, 0.0)
# draw all points from offset
glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 0, n)
glDrawArrays(GL_LINE_STRIP, 0, points_per_vbo)
my_func would do something like this:
my_func(start_x, end_x):
# generate the correct x locations.
x_values = range(start_x, end_x, STEP_SIZE)
# generate the y values. We could be getting these values from a sensor.
y_values = []
for j in x_values:
data = []
for i, j in zip(x_values, y_values):
data.extend([i, j])
return data
This works just fine, however if I have let's say 20 of those line strips that span the entire screen, then things slow down considerably. Therefore my questions:
1) should I use glMapBuffer to bind the buffer on the GPU and fill the data directly (instead of using glBufferSubData)? Or will this make no difference performance wise?
2) should I use a shader for moving objects (here line strip) instead of calling glTranslatef? If so, how would such a shader look like? (I suspect that a shader is the wrong way to go, since my line strip is NOT a period function but rather contains random data).
3) what happens if the window get's resized? how do I keep aspect ratio and scale vertices accordingly? glViewport() only helps scaling in y direction, not in x direction. If the window is rescaled in x-direction, then in my current implementation I would have to recalculate the position of the entire line strip (calling
my_func to get the new x coordinates) and upload it to the GPU. I guess this could be done more elegantly? How would I do that?
4) I noticed that when I use
glTranslatef with a non integral value, the screen starts to flicker if the line strip consists of thousands of points. This is most probably because the fine resolution that I use to calculate the line strip does not match the pixel resolution of the screen and therefore sometimes some points appear in front and sometimes behind other points (this is particularly annoying when you don't render a sine wave but some 'random' data). How can I prevent this from happening (besides the obvious solution of translating by a integer multiple of 1 pixel)? If a window get re-sized from let's say originally 800x800 pixels to 100x100 pixels and I still want to visualize a line strip of 20 seconds, then shifting in x direction must work flicker free somehow with sub pixel precision, right?
5) as you can see I always call
glTranslatef(-local_shift, 0.0, 0.0) - without ever doing the opposite. Therefore I keep shifting the entire view to the right. And that's why I need to keep track of the absolute x position (in order to place new data at the correct location). This problem will eventually lead to an artifact, where the line is overlapping with the edges of the window. I guess there must be a better way for doing this, right? Like keeping the x values fixed and just moving & updating the y values?
EDIT I've removed the sine wave example and replaced it with a better example. My question is generally about how to move line strips in space most efficiently (while adding new values to them). Therefore any suggestions like "precompute the values for t -> infinity" don't help here (I could also just be drawing the current temperature measured in front of my house).
EDIT2 Consider this toy example where after each time step, the first point is removed and a new one is added to the end:
t = 0
* * *
* **** *
t = 1
* * * *
**** *
t = 2
* *
* * *
**** *
I don't think I can use a shader here, can I?
EDIT 3: example with two line strips.
EDIT 4: based on Tim's answer I'm using now the following code, which works nicely, but breaks the line into two (since I have two calls of
glDrawArrays), see also the following two screenshots.
# calculate the difference
diff_first = x[1] - x[0]
''' first part of the line '''
# push the matrix
move_to = -(diff_first * c)
print 'going to %d ' % (move_to)
glTranslatef(move_to, 0, 0)
# format of glVertexPointer: nbr points per vertex, data type, stride, byte offset
# calculate the offset into the Vertex
offset_bytes = c * BYTES_PER_POINT
stride = 0
glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, stride, offset_bytes)
# format of glDrawArrays: mode, Specifies the starting index in the enabled arrays, nbr of points
nbr_points_to_render = (nbr_points - c)
starting_point_in_above_selected_Vertex = 0
glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS, starting_point_in_above_selected_Vertex, nbr_points_to_render)
# pop the matrix
''' second part of the line '''
# push the matrix
move_to = (nbr_points - c) * diff_first
print 'moving to %d ' %(move_to)
glTranslatef(move_to, 0, 0)
# select the vertex
offset_bytes = 0
stride = 0
glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, stride, offset_bytes)
# draw the line
nbr_points_to_render = c
starting_point_in_above_selected_Vertex = 0
glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS, starting_point_in_above_selected_Vertex, nbr_points_to_render)
# pop the matrix
# update counter
c += 1
if c == nbr_points:
c = 0
EDIT5 the resulting solution must obviously render one line across the screen - and no two lines that are missing a connection. The circular buffer solution by Tim provides a solution on how to move the plot, but I end up with two lines, instead of one.


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Hello and welcome back to the last installment of the AM3 round up for this half of the year. Over the last year, we have done a number of cooler reviews on the AM3 platform and this review will look to add to these results. But before we begin, we would like to thank Noctua and Thermalright for helping us to put this extensive shootout together.
Over the last two years, there have been a number of changes in the rankings of the top air coolers. The TRUE was at the top for a long time before the Megahalems came along. The Megahalems held on to the top spot for a while, but then it saw some intense competition from a number of new products, mainly the Thermalright Venomous X, the Noctua NH D14 and then later from the Cogage Arrow. The last year has seen a lot of competition for the top spot, with some innovative designs and ideas coming into play as well. Today, these three are widely regarded as the top dogs of air cooling and we are going to take a look at these, plus another four coolers to see who will take the top spot. Most of us have seen these coolers fight it out for the top spot on the various Intel platforms, but we rarely see an AM2+/AM3 shootout, even though the Phenom II line up has had considerable success in the market. This review should help all AMD users in making a better decision when looking for a new high end cooler.
Let's take a look at the seven competitors for today's shootout:
1. Thermalright TRUE RevC
2. Noctua NH D14
3. Cogage Arrow
4. Thermalright Venomous X
5. Thermolab Baram
6. Coolink Corator DS
7. Corsair H50
We have a nice looking list which comprises of three twin tower coolers, each working on a different idea, three single tower coolers and one closed loop water cooling setup.
Now lets take a short look at the three new entrants before moving on to the test bed. For the other four, please check previous reviews in this section.
The TRUE Rev C has been one of the all time greats in the air cooling world and it was important for us to add this to our list of coolers, simply to see whether it still had enough to run with the top dogs. The new Venomous X is a reincarnation of the Rev C, and both share a lot of features with each other. Let's take a look at the specifications before going ahead:
* Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme Ready
* Intel Core i7 Ready
* AM2 & AM3 Ready
* Quiet and powerful cooling due to multiple heat pipes and large aluminum fin area
* Proprietary bent winglet design to minimize airflow resistance
* Heat pipes soldered to base (nickel plated)and fins for optimum heat transfer
* Includes thermal paste Chill Factor
Technical Spec
* Dimension: L63.44 x W132 x H160.5 mm (heatsink only)
* Weight: 790g (heatsink only)
* Recommended Fan: All 120mm
* INTEL: LGA775/LGA1366/LGA1156 (Optional)
* AMD: Socket AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 Processor
The TRUE comes in a plain brown box with only the name written on it. All of Thermalright's products used to be packaged in the same way till the Venomous X came along. Once we open the box, we are greeted by the cooler itself along with a box of accessories.
The cooler itself traveled all the way from Taiwan. Since it reached me without a single scratch or dent, I am pretty happy with the kind of safety that this package ensures to the product. Let's now take a look at the list of accessories. As you may remember, the company decided to go all out with the kit on the TRUE Rev C and included every possible piece of equipment other than a fan.
The only thing that I can think of that would be good for this kit is an additional set of fan clips. Other than that, Thermalright have got the setup spot on and I wish they had carried this forward to the Venomous X and included the AM2+/AM3 bolt through kit with it as well.
The cooler itself is a massive piece of work and weighs in at a pretty impressive 790 grams, and that's without a fan attached. It follows the design of the previous versions of the TRUE, so there's not much to discuss on that front. The fins are evenly spaced out and as has been proven, it should do a good job with even low pressure fans. It has six 6mm heat pipes to help dissipate the heat and they seem to do a good job going by the results. The heat pipes are staggered, to allow for maximum airflow to reach each individual heat pipe.
The overall fit and finish is not as good as a Noctua product and as you can see from the base below, it's a bit rough when compared to the finish on the newer coolers we see these days. The base has a slight curve to it and this is actually by design to improve performance.
I wish Thermalright would spend more time on the final finish as this is a common complaint that I have against all the coolers that the company makes. The base on the TRUE still has the scuff marks from machining and a nice shiny chrome finish would have looked much better here.
The cooler is a bit painful to install on an AM2+/AM3 platform as you do need to make sure that your motherboard is outside the case. Secondly, the cooler tends to move a bit even with screws all the way down and you do need to move it around a bit even during installation. The same installation is carried on to the Venomous X and the Cogage line up. Thermalright should look at a better mounting system that is more user-friendly.
Lets now move on to the Noctua NH D14.
Let's take a look at this beautiful piece of engineering from Noctua.
The NH D14 has been hailed across various forums as the cooler to beat and it comes into this round up with some massive expectations. It has been topping the charts over the last few months and it certainly appears that this is one cooler you need to keep your eye on. First we'll start with the specifications:
Noctua NH-D14 Heatsink Specifications:
* Socket compatibility: AM2, AM3, 775, 1156 and 1366
* Height (with fan): 160mm
* Width (with fan): 140 mm
* Depth (with fan): 158mm
* Weight (with fan): 1070/1240g
* Material: Copper (base and heat-pipes), aluminium (cooling fins), soldered joints & nickel plating
* 1x NF-P14 premium fan
* 1x NF-P12 premium fan
* 2x Ultra-Low-Noise Adaptor (U.L.N.A.) Y-Split Cables
* NT-H1 high-grade thermal compound
* SecuFirm2 Mounting Kits
* Fan compatibility: 140x140x25 & 120x120x25mm
Fan Specifications – Noctua NF-P14 & Noctua NF-P12:
* Dimensions: 120 x 120 x 25mm
* Bearing: SSO-Bearing
* Blade Geometry: Straight-Blade-Design
* Rotational Speed: 1200 / 1300 RPM
* Rotational Speed w/ ULNA: 900 / 900 RPM
* Airflow: 64.7 / 54.3 CFM
* Airflow w/ ULNA: 41.7 / 37.3 CFM
* Acoustical Noise: 19.6 / 19.8 dBA
* Acoustical Noise w/ ULNA: 13.2 / 12.6 dBA
* Input Power: 1.2 / 1.08 W
This is a great example of a complete setup, with the fans as well as every single mounting accessory thrown in. At this price, this package is hard to beat. The cooler is also way easier to install as compared to the Thermalright line up. Let's now take a look at the packaging.
The cooler comes in an attractive box with a picture of the cooler as well as a few lines on the most important features. Once we open the box, we are greeted by the accessories box, under which lies the cooler, safely packaged in two sets of cardboard boxes.
The accessories for the NH D14, as mentioned earlier, leave nothing out. You get a whole kit, including a set of two fans.
Noctua also added a screwdriver to make it easier to install the cooler. Once we take the cooler out of the box, the first thing that hits you is it's size and weight. All put together, with the fans, this cooler weighs in at close to 1.24 kilos and that's no joke.
The cooler comes installed with both fans, and only the middle 140 mm needs to be removed for installation of the cooler. Now we'll take the fans off and take a closer look at the cooler itself.
This cooler is simply massive. The primary components here are the six 6mm heat pipes, which are evenly coated in chrome. The heat pipes run in such a way as to make sure that each and every one of them gets direct airflow from the fans. This helps to cool down the heat pipes much faster. Again, the fins have sufficient space between them to provide good cooling even with medium pressure fans. The whole idea of this cooler is to give great results with relatively low noise.
Looking at the NH-D14 from the side, we can see that the cooler only has place for a 25mm fan here and that is a bit of a disappointment. What is not, is the absolutely wonderful finish of the cooler itself.
As you can see, the cooler comes completely prepared for mounting with even the fan dampeners in place.
The base is finished in chrome and comes with a slight curvature. Again, this is a due to the design and Noctua does not advise any lapping to the base.
Overall, it's got quite a few positives going into the test, including the wonderful finish of every single part and the fact that its a complete package. The only thing missing is an extra set of fan clips and you can mount only a maximum of two fans with the included kit. Also, taking the clips off of the fans is a bit of a task in itself, so be prepared to spend some time if you want to change the fans out. The clips will also hold only open corner fans, so I had to use rubber bands to keep the GT's running on them.
Keep in mind that the installation may be very simple, but it will block any ram with large heat sinks. Luckily I am using an OCZ platinum kit and that helped in making things easier. You will want to install the ram before the cooler as otherwise there is barely any space to work with. Overall, it is a much easier install than the Thermalright coolers.
Lets now move on to our third new comer.
The Cogage Arrow came in as a wild card entry and was not supposed to be a part of this shoot out to begin with. But with the rave reviews that it has been getting across the globe, we were more than happy to put it on the test bench. The Cogage is a twin tower cooler with the added advantage of being able to accommodate a 32mm fan in the center. We did do some testing with a 32mm fan on all the coolers, but since this one was able to get it in the right spot, the results really showed. Here are the specifications before going ahead:
* 4 X 8mm large sintered heat-pipes efficiently remove excessive heat away from the CPU, allowing for great Overclocking potential
* Nickel Plated Base and Heatpipes, increase the longevity of the heatsink by slowing oxidation and deterioration rates… maintained performance over time
* Double fin stack design, provides each tower with an impressive 147 x 103mm of surface area for heat dissipation
* Special Arrow fin design, which allows cool air to pass through while rapidly moving heat away and maintaining a quiet operating volume
* Soldered Heat-pipes, Fins and Copper Base, ensure all components maintain the higest of Thermal Efficiency
* Support for Multiple-Platforms: Intel Socket 1366/1156/775 and AMD Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3
* Includes a Quiet 120 x 25mm PWM controlled fan 1000-1800 rpm
* Capable of supporting up to three fans (2x 120x25mm or 140x25mm fans) for the Ultimate Enthusiast (1x 120x38mm fan will fit between the two towers)
* Cooler Dimensions: Length 147mm x Width 123mm x Height 160mm
* Cooler weight: 825 g (excluding Retention Hardware and Fan)
* Heat-pipe: 4, 8mm Sintered Heat-pipes
* Cooler Base Material: C1100 Pure Copper with Nickel Plating
The cooler comes with a full setup, but unfortunately it does not include an AM3 mounting kit. It however does include three pairs of fan mounting clips and that's a big plus point right there.
The Cogage Arrow comes in a nice black box with the picture of the cooler dominating the front.
The box clearly says that this cooler is made for a variety of Intel socket types, but you can use the same AM2+/AM3 bolt through kit to get this running on an AMD setup as well. Once we open the box, we are greeted by a cardboard placeholder which holds both the cooler as well as all the accessories that go with it. Lets take a quick look at the accessories before going ahead.
The accessories list is quite extensive as you can see and it comes with everything other than the AM3 mounting kit. The fan is pretty decent, but we will not be using it for the testing up ahead. Overall, the kit is in line with what we get from Thermalright, which makes sense.
The fan is held securely between the two towers and overall the packaging, though not as flashy or well done as the Noctua, did a good job in keeping the products secure.
The cooler itself is a twin tower design, with the capacity to hold a 38mm fan in the middle slot. So, an overly extreme setup can be done with 3 X 38mm fans. This is achieved in almost the same dimensions as the Noctua by keeping the towers a little smaller in depth.
This cooler is different from the previous two in that it makes use of four large 8mm heat pipes rather than six 6mm. The fins are also more closely spaced and a high pressure fan will be required to bring out the best in them. The fit and finish, while not up to Noctua's mark is pretty decent. The heat pipes are placed in such a way as to make sure that all of them get the best possible air flow and this helps in the final analysis.
The base is very similar to the Venomous X, and again, has a small curvature in the center by design. The sample we got had a small line on one side, but that did not affect it's performance in any way.
Overall it is a much better made cooler than the TRUE, but there is room for improvement in the finish and the package as a whole.
The cooler is as difficult to install as the TRUE or the Venomous X, as it uses the exact same mounting system. Due to the size, it is recommended to take the motherboard out of the case, as a run away screwdriver can cause a whole lot of issues to your board. The fan clip system needs to be installed before you install the cooler as it is very difficult to install this with no way of looking at the bottom of the cooler.
Lets now move on to the test setup.
The test setup will be the same as with the previous reviews and we will look at three mounts per cooler. The best of the three results will then be taken as the final result. Each cooler will be tested at stock clocks and an overclock of 4Ghz at 1.525V. The test will be run on OCCT for 30 minutes per test.
The results will be calculated with a base ambient and additions and subtractions will be made to the results taking this number. So if the base ambient is 25 degrees, then a cooler tested at 27 degrees will have 2 degrees deducted from its final readings. All testing will be done in a closed case environment.
Now moving on to the test bench, which will remain the same for all the coolers that we have tested so far and for a few more in the near future.
CPU: AMD 965 BE @ 3.4Ghz (1.30V) and 4Ghz (1.525V), CPU NB @ 2.6Ghz (1.20V)
Memory: OCZ 1600Mhz Platinum @ 1333Mhz 1.65V
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-3
Motherboard: MSI GD70 790FX
PSU: OCZ Modextreme 700W Modular
Case: Coolermaster Sniper with 3X120, 1X200 Intakes and 3X120 Exhausts
GPU: Sapphire 5850 @ Stock
Fans: 2 X Scythe Gentle Typhoons 1850 in Push/Pull
Moving on to the main part of the review. Let us first take a look at the results at 3.4 Ghz, 1.30V.
Kicking off at stock clocks with a slight under volt, the Coolink Corator DS gets the lowest idle temperatures at 29.5 degrees. This is closely followed by the Noctua and the Cogage Arrow. Our contender from a previous generation, the TRUE comes in at last place in the idle test.
Moving on to the load results, the lowest temperature was recorded using the Cogage Arrow, with the Venomous X coming in at a close second. The Noctua rounds up the top three, and the Thermalright Rev C manages to beat the Thermolab Baram in the load test, but only by a whisker to take 6th place.
If we look closely at these figures, we will see that the difference between the best and the worst cooler on load at stock settings is a very meager three and a half degrees. So for anyone planning a mild overclock, any of these will do just as well as the other and be a lot more quiet than the stock AMD heat sink.
Now let's turn the heat up and separate the men from the boys.
I am sure this is the part of the review that most people want to see, so here we go.
The NH-D14 leads the pack in terms of idle temperatures at just 34.5 degrees, with the Venomous X and the Coolink following closely behind. The total difference between the best and the worst temperature is around 3.5 degrees, which again is not that high.
When we move on to the load tests, surprise surprise, it's the Cogage Arrow which leads the pack with a load temperature of just 56.5 degrees. It is closely followed by the Noctua in second place with a temperature of 57.3 degrees with the Venomous X rounding off the top three at 58 degrees. The difference between the top and bottom spots now opens up to around 5 degrees. The Corsair H50 comes in at last place with a maximum recorded temperature of 63 degrees.
The Cogage Arrow was the surprise package, beating it's more well known sibling the Venomous X, as well as the Noctua NH-D14. Keep in mind that the temperature difference amongst the top three is around 1.5 degrees, but all the same, the Cogage Arrow is the new top dog for the AMD platform.
The Noctua comes in second to the Cogage and the Thermalright Venomous X comes in at a not too shabby third. The Venomous X manages to beat the third twin tower cooler, the Corator DS, as well as the other three coolers that we tested. For a single tower cooler, this is not bad at all and for those looking for that extra bit of space on their motherboards, this would be the top cooler for now.
The Cogage Arrow receives the TechREACTION.net Gold Silicon Award!
But if I were to buy a new cooler today, space not being a constraint, I would happily go for the Noctua NH-D14, simply because of it's overall package, ease of installation and the fact that it comes with a good set of fans. The Noctua is still a bit ahead of Thermalright in terms of their build quality and ease of use and that's one reason that they will see me coming back to them in the future. For now, I'm back to my Venomous X, which gives me top rate performance at probably half the size.
The Noctua NH-D14 receives the TechREACTION.net Gold Silicon Award!
The TRUE is clearly showing its age and finishes near the bottom in both the tests. But it does manage to edge out the H50 in the final test and that's the number that we are more interested in.
All of the coolers we tested were able to keep the CPU within it's thermal limits, but when it comes to the final few Mhz that we need for a benchmark attempt, it's the top three that will go the distance.
Finally, coming to the price, the Noctua rightfully charges close to $85-$90 depending on where you shop, with the Venomous X and the Cogage Arrow both at the $65-$70 price mark. Remember to keep an extra $10 for the AMD mounting kit though. Taking this into consideration, all three coolers from the top three cost nearly the same. The Baram is the cheapest cooler we used in this review and it comes in at around $40, which makes it a great value proposition.
Thank you for reading and I hope this review helps you in making the right cooling choice.
You can also check out Performance-PC's to purchase either the NH-D14 or the Cogage Arrow.
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[President Obama] said he would take executive action on immigration by year's end unless Republicans passed a bill. It's certainly a bold negotiating tactic: You can do what I want, or I'll go ahead and do what I want anyway. This is how you "negotiate" with a seven-year old, not a Senate Majority Leader.
I'm not sure that isn't what Obama thinks he's doing, and I'm sure many of my left-leaning readers are chuckling right now at the comparison. But Mitch McConnell is not a seven year old; he's an adult, and he just won an election in which voters repudiated Obama and his party. (Temporarily, I am sure, but just the same: As someone once said, "Elections have consequences.") McConnell is not the proverbial Tea Party extremist who won't negotiate; he's an establishment guy, known as a strategist and a tactician, not an ideologue (which is why the Tea Party isn't that fond of him). In short, he's someone who can make deals. Responding to McConnell's rather gracious remarks about finding common goals by announcing that you know what the American public wants, and you're going to give it to them no matter what their elected representatives say, seems curiously brash. It might chill the atmosphere today when he sits down with congressional leaders.
I wonder if Obama even knows how to negotiate with Republicans. It's not as if he has a long, distinguished record of passing legislation in a mixed environment. His later years in the Illinois State Senate enjoyed a solid Democratic majority, and he jumped into the U.S. Senate at a propitious time. Soon after he arrived came the wave of 2006, when Democrats controlled both houses of congress by comfortable margins, and Senator Obama was far too junior to be negotiating with the White House. Then came the financial crisis, and another wave, and Obama spent the first two years of his presidency in a happy situation where he could get things done without needing the support of the opposition. He didn't even negotiate with his own party; the Senate negotiated his health care bill, and Nancy Pelosi whipped it through the House.
Post 2010, of course, he also hasn't had much practice negotiating. I'm not interested in another tedious argument about who did what to whom; whatever the cause and whoever's fault it may be, the fact remains that the president has spent the last four years in a stalemate: Neither party can leave, and neither party can win.
It's a little late in the president's career to learn the fine art of making deals with people who fundamentally disagree with you, but might be willing to work on whatever small goals you might share. I suspect it feels more comfortable to go along with the strategy that has worked decently well over the last four years: hold your ground, complain about Republican intransigence, and hope that Republican legislators give you another opportunity to play long-suffering adult in the room.
Megan McArdle, "Does Obama Even Know How to Negotiate?", Bloomberg View, 2014-11-07.
November 20, 2014
QotD: Obama's negotiation skills
November 8, 2014
Republicans and the Patriot Act re-authorization in May 2015
Conor Friedersdorf on the ethical and moral challenge that will face the Republican members of the next Congress soon after they take office:
The Patriot Act substantially expires in May 2015.
When the new Congress takes up its reauthorization, mere months after convening, members will be forced to decide what to do about Section 215 of the law, the provision cited by the NSA to justify logging most every telephone call made by Americans.
With Republicans controlling both the Senate and the House, the GOP faces a stark choice. Is a party that purports to favor constitutional conservatism and limited government going to ratify mass surveillance that makes a mockery of the Fourth Amendment? Will Mitch McConnell endorse a policy wherein the Obama administration logs and stores every telephone number dialed or received by Roger Ailes of Fox News, Wayne LaPierre of the NRA, the Koch brothers, the head of every pro-life organization in America, and every member of the Tea Party? Is the GOP House going to sacrifice the privacy of all its constituents to NSA spying that embodies the generalized warrants so abhorrent to the founders?
The issue divides elected Republicans. Senator Rand Paul and Representative Justin Amash are among those wary of tracking the phone calls of millions of innocent people. Senator Richard Burr favors doing it. Republicans pondering a run for president in 2016 will be trying to figure out how mass surveillance will play in that campaign.
Many would rather not take any stand before May, as if governing — the very job citizens are paying them to do — is some sort of trap. But their preferences don't matter. This fight is unavoidable.
Sadly, the smart money is betting that they'll flub it and just re-authorize with little or no changes to the most offensive parts of the legislation. Because 2016.
August 9, 2014
QotD: What is it that keeps democracies democratic?
This is the only thing that keeps either party within a mile of good behavior — the understanding that if you deceive the public, or act with gross incompetence, that behavior is going to be politicized and used against you.
Consider the example of the various one-party cities in this nation.
Can there be any doubt that "politicization" of one's errors or actual violations is, while annoying for the party who has erred, the only thing that restrains a party from wholesale violations of the public trust?
Besides the obvious salutary public policy effects, there is of course a more tangible reason why records should be retained and, when subpoenaed by Congress, disclosed to that body:
Because it's the law.
And adherence to the Law is the only thing that keeps a society of feuding political parties from degenerating into a third-world system of coups and counter-coups.
If the party I oppose shows perfect contempt for following the law when it sees a political advantage in doing so, why should I not support the selfsame law-breaking when the party I support decides it might find some advantage in doing so?
The government's basis for rule over the citizens is based on two things:
1. Sheer naked coercive power.
2. Moral authority, and the notion that, while a citizen might not like the particular government serving at any particular time, that citizen values something more eternal than the temporary political circumstances of a four year period of time.
Namely, the idea that it is best for everyone to follow the law, because it's more important to support a stable government without turmoil and violence than to violate the law to win on any immediate, ephemeral political point.
Note that it is far better for any society that the government's power rests more on the second pillar than on the first. Because so long as that pillar, of moral authority, of general fairness, of a general sense that the longterm interests of America are better served by adherence to government than to rebellion against it, the government will rarely, if ever, have to resort to the ultimate pillar of authority, which is physical, violent coercion.
Ace, "Sure Why Not: HHS Emails Sought by Congress To Determine Why Healthcare.gov Was Such a Catastrophe Are, Get This, Missing", Ace of Spades H.Q., 2014-08-08.
July 4, 2014
Reason.tv – Presidential Power and the Rise of American Monarchy
Published on 3 Jul 2014
"America is dropping like a stone in rankings of freedom. As power accumulates in one person, expect that to continue," says Frank Buckley, George Mason University law professor and author of the new book, The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America.
Buckley sat down with Reason TV's Tracy Oppenheimer to discuss how the U.S. presidency has evolved into what he calls "something like an elective monarch." He says that this is not what the framers of the Constitution had intended, nor did they conceive of the modern version of the separation of powers.
"A parliamentary regime was more or less what the framers wanted…as far as the separation of powers is concerned," says Buckley "instead of a device to constrain a president, it's one which immunizes him from criticism by Congress."
June 16, 2014
The Kronies: Laughing All The Way to the Export-Import Bank
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Luckily, Bankor and Ariel Stryker appear just in time to set the Reps straight…straight on the path to re-election. Including a special appearance by "the Big man" himself, this episode is sure to capture hearts, minds, and votes.
June 15, 2014
Questions that need to be asked of the IRS in wake of email loss announcement
Sharyl Attkisson has a set of questions that someone in congress or within the Justice department should be directing toward the IRS after Friday's announcement that, oopsie, we kinda sorta lost those Lois Lerner emails you were interested in reading:
- Please provide a timeline of the crash and documentation covering when it was first discovered and by whom; when, how and by whom it was learned that materials were lost; the official documentation reporting the crash and federal data loss; documentation reflecting all attempts to recover the materials; and the remediation records documenting the fix. This material should include the names of all officials and technicians involved, as well as all internal communications about the matter.
- Please provide all documents and emails that refer to the crash from the time that it happened through the IRS' disclosure to Congress Friday that it had occurred.
- Please provide the documents that show the computer crash and lost data were appropriately reported to the required entities including any contractor servicing the IRS. If the incident was not reported, please explain why.
- Please provide a list summarizing what other data was irretrievably lost in the computer crash. If the loss involved any personal data, was the loss disclosed to those impacted? If not, why?
- Please provide documentation reflecting any security analyses done to assess the impact of the crash and lost materials. If such analyses were not performed, why not?
- Please provide documentation showing the steps taken to recover the material, and the names of all technicians who attempted the recovery.
- Please explain why redundancies required for federal systems were either not used or were not effective in restoring the lost materials, and provide documentation showing how this shortfall has been remediated.
- Please provide any documents reflecting an investigation into how the crash resulted in the irretrievable loss of federal data and what factors were found to be responsible for the existence of this situation.
- I would also ask for those who discovered and reported the crash to testify under oath, as well as any officials who reported the materials as having been irretrievably lost.
Losing an ordinary email archive happens now and again. Losing an email archive that is the focus of some fascinating questions about the IRS being used as a partisan oppression device against political opponents? That will take a lot of explaining away, as it's just too convenient and the timing is highly suspicious. What is even more interesting is that the IRS hinted that since they can't find those emails, they're thinking of abandoning the investigation. So, clearly there's nothing to see here and we should all just move along now.
Update: This seems relevant.
NY Times goes DefCon 1 over missing WH emails, calls for Congressional action – in 2008 http://t.co/lj3PA9IRlf
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 14, 2014
Update, 17 June: Megan McArdle assesses whether this "innocent" explanation is plausible.
In short, yes, there is an innocent explanation: An accident combined with a really bad e-mail storage policy to wipe out critical records. There's also a semi-innocent explanation, where really bad storage policy could have enabled Lerner to arrange a hard drive accident that destroyed incriminating e-mails before she had to respond to Camp's initial letter. I find the innocent explanation much more plausible than a conspiracy, or even the semi-innocent explanation — even assuming that she was conspiring with the White House, why bother with the elaborate schemes when you could just send your incriminating e-mails from an outside account?
But that still leaves me really concerned about the terrible policy decisions. The timing of the data loss is incredibly suspicious, and the IRS has left itself completely unable to answer those suspicions with anything better than a shrug. It should expect — in fact, it should request — a thorough outside investigation of this incident, but even the most scrupulous audit will not be able to entirely quell the worry that the IRS enabled a rogue agent to get away with destroying evidence.
To believe the IRS requires a pretty low opinion of government competence. My friends who work in regulated sectors such as finance are outraged by the IRS's description of how it was running its backup process, because the government subjects them to constantly ratcheting standards for document retention — specifying how long, and on what format, they have to keep every communication ever generated by their firms. How dare they demand higher standards of regulated companies than they do of the regulators?
In 2014, every government agency should be storing every e-mail that goes in or out in an easily accessible format. That they weren't bothering suggests that the IRS does not expect to deliver the kind of accountability that it routinely demands of taxpayers. That's potentially a much bigger problem than anything Lois Lerner stands accused of — and it should be rectified, government-wide, with all due speed.
A few minutes later, Megan sent out this Twitter update:
Okay, one crash I believe. Six crashes is starting to strain my credibility gland. http://t.co/CIBkP6xjR2
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) June 17, 2014
April 15, 2014
Oval Office trivia
Chris Kluwe is deputized to answer reader letters for Deadspin. It actually has some football-related stuff, in addition to an answer for this query from Ethan:
How many people that are not the president, do you think have had sex in the Oval Office?
Has to be at least in the thousands. Think of all the Congressmen working after hours, diligently crafting pork with the help of nubile young interns who're easily impressed by wrinkly, dead Cryptkeeper flesh and the ephemeral promise of power. One thing leads to another, he says he knows a guy on the Secret Service who can get them into the Oval Office as long as they're quiet, and boom — now he's desperately trying to remember where he left the Viagra while she tries to convince herself this will totally launch her career. I bet the Secret Service guys even have a name for it, like the Clinton, or the Kennedy.
"Hey Chip, looks like 'ol Strom Thurmond's pulling another Jefferson tonight. Make sure his walker's outside the door in about three minutes."
"Greeeaat, I'll let the cleaning staff know it's gonna be another late one."
February 25, 2014
Lobbyist wants to ban gays from playing in the NFL
This is the sort of story that wouldn't be out of place in the 1970s, but seems to have come adrift in the timestream and for some reason shows up today:
Just when it appeared that a supposedly modern, progressive society is willing to accept people for who they are and not force them to pretend to be something they're not, someone is trying to kick the pendulum sharply in the other direction.
According to The Hill, lobbyist Jack Burkman said Monday that he's preparing legislation that would ban gay players from the NFL.
"We are losing our decency as a nation," Burkman said in a statement. "Imagine your son being forced to shower with a gay man. That's a horrifying prospect for every mom in the country. What in the world has this nation come to?"
One must assume that Burkman's belief is, contra Chris Kluwe, sharing a shower room with a gay man will magically turn you into a "lustful cockmonster".
January 16, 2014
A political speech you'll never hear
Jim Geraghty's congressman is retiring, so some have suggested that he should run to replace him. Here's the speech he'll never give:
I have been asked what I am willing to do to earn the great responsibility and honor of representing you in the House of Representatives. My answer is simple and direct: Absolutely nothing.
(Nervous laughter from crowd.)
My fellow Virginians, if you elect me to Congress, I promise that I will not lift a finger for the special interests, the corporate interests, the lobbyists, Big Oil, Big Business, Big Papi, the Big Ten, the Notorious B.I.G., or The Big Bang Theory. I won't answer to them or any other one of our public discourse's designated villains of the week.
I can make this promise with confidence because I'm pretty sure I won't do much of anything for you, either.
(Cheering stops)
This is an area where my principled commitment to limited government and my deep disinterest in dealing with your problems will align perfectly.
Do you want a deduction or tax credit written into the tax code to benefit your business? Well, tough, because you're not getting it. Your business is supposed to thrive because it provides quality goods and services, not because it gets some special help from the IRS.
(Murmurs of discontent.)
Have you ever considered that maybe the reason Congress is so awful is you, dear voters? I mean, you elected these clowns. But even beyond that, most of the time when members of Congress interact with the public, they're being asked for favors. The mail they get, the phone calls they get, most of the people who show up at their town halls – everybody's asking them for something. Get more funding for this! Help us get money to do that! Make sure this agency spends more on this local project! Look, your congressman is not Santa Claus! […] Through your behavior and expectations, you've conditioned our elected leaders to think of themselves as walking ATMs.
Ask not what your country can do for you … because I'm sick and tired of your whining. Do it yourself.
(The crowd is silent and not happy.)
What do you say, Virginia? Are you ready for a congressman who has nothing to offer you but … well, basically nothing to offer you?
Crowd: BOOOOOOOOOO!
Guy in crowd: Hey, doesn't Mary Katharine Ham live in this district, too?
Another guy in crowd: Let's nominate her!
The crowd moves on.
January 15, 2014
President Obama's speech shows his fear of "a backlash from national security agencies"
Is the national security "tail" wagging the national "dog"?
President Obama will issue new guidelines on Friday to curtail government surveillance, but will not embrace the most far-reaching proposals of his own advisers and will ask Congress to help decide some of the toughest issues, according to people briefed on his thinking.
Mr. Obama plans to increase limits on access to bulk telephone data, call for privacy safeguards for foreigners and propose the creation of a public advocate to represent privacy concerns at a secret intelligence court. But he will not endorse leaving bulk data in the custody of telecommunications firms, nor will he require court permission for all so-called national security letters seeking business records.
The emerging approach, described by current and former government officials who insisted on anonymity in advance of Mr. Obama's widely anticipated speech, suggested a president trying to straddle a difficult line in hopes of placating foreign leaders and advocates of civil liberties without a backlash from national security agencies. The result seems to be a speech that leaves in place many current programs, but embraces the spirit of reform and keeps the door open to changes later.
Emphasis mine.
January 9, 2014
Oh, that's okay then – Congress has the same constitutional protections as other Americans (i.e., none whatsoever)
Like Andrew Napolitano, I'm sure all members of congress heaved a sigh of relief when the NSA said that they have exactly the same constitutional right to privacy from surveillance as every other American does. Wait, what?
Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wrote to Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Administration (NSA), and asked plainly whether the NSA has been or is now spying on members of Congress or other public officials. The senator's letter was no doubt prompted by the revelations of Edward Snowden to the effect that the federal government's lust for personal private data about all Americans and many foreigners knows no bounds, and its respect for the constitutionally protected and statutorily enforced right to privacy is nonexistent.
All of this is background to the timing of Sanders' letter. That Clapper perjured himself before, and Alexander misled, Congress is nothing new. And the punishments for lying to Congress and for misleading Congress are identical: five years per lie or per misleading statement. Hence, the silence from the NSA to Sanders.
Well, it wasn't exactly silence, but rather a refusal to answer a simple question. The NSA did reply to Sanders by stating — in an absurd oxymoron — that members of Congress receive the same constitutional protections as other Americans: that is to say, none from the NSA.
The NSA's refusal to answer Sanders' question directly is a tacit admission, because we are all well aware that the NSA collects identifying data on and the content of virtually every email, text message and phone call sent or received in the U.S. In fact, just last week, the secret FISA court renewed the order authorizing massive records collection for the 36th time. If members of Congress are treated no differently than the American public, then the NSA is keeping tabs on every email, text and phone call members of Congress send and receive, too.
That raises a host of constitutional questions. Under the Constitution, Congress and the executive branch are equals. The president — for whom the NSA works — can no more legally spy on members of Congress without a search warrant about the members to be spied upon than Congress can legally spy on the president. Surely the president, a former lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, knows this.
There was a time when the NSA's failure to answer such a straightforward question as Sanders has asked would have led to hearings and bipartisan investigations. However, Democrats are largely silent, choosing party and personality over principle, and Republicans know all of this started under President George W. Bush and are afraid to open a can of worms — except for King, who apparently likes to be spied upon.
January 2, 2014
QotD: Why progressive policy ideas get more media attention
When it comes to crafting winning political narratives, progressives have a natural advantage over conservatives. That's because progressives have a free hand to project rosy visions of the future while conservatives must constantly defend against progressives' distorted depictions of the past.
Two fundamental techniques undergird progressives' success at narrative spinning. The first is skillful framing of the debate through investing heavily in public opinion making machinery. This disarms critics while giving lawmakers cover to vote for bills they've neither read nor understood. Thus framed, policies are judged only by their stated intentions, never their actual results. This allows politicians to promote new pieces of legislation named for their lofty objectives, even if the thousands of pages of vague and contradictory content deliver just the opposite.
The second is dodging all responsibility for failure. This is accomplished by blaming insufficient resources, the prior administration, the greedy 1 percent, sabotage by Republicans, or even the people's obdurate failure to appreciate the progressive benefits conferred upon them. When the going gets tough, reality can be dismissed with a slogan. Forward!
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Casualties from the most recent copyright term expansion
At Techdirt, Mike Masnick mourns the creative works that should have entered the public domain yesterday, but thanks to Congress will remain locked up for much, much longer:
As they do every year, unfortunately, the good folks at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke have put together a depressing list of what should have entered the public domain yesterday. As you hopefully know, until 1978, the maximum amount of time that work in the US could be covered by copyright was 56 years (you initially received a 28 year copyright term, which could be renewed for another 28 years). That means, back in 1957, everyone who created the works in that list knew absolutely, and without a doubt that their works would be given back to the public to share, to perform, to build on and more… on January 1, 2014 at the very latest. And they all still created their works, making clear that the incentive of a 56 year monopoly was absolutely more than enough incentive to create.
And yet, for reasons that still no one has made clear, Congress unilaterally changed the terms of the deal, took these works away from the public, without any compensation at all, and will keep them locked up for at least another 40 years. At least.
And it's not just arts and entertainment. The post points out plenty of science and technology is still locked up thanks to all of this.
1957 was a noteworthy year for science: the USSR launched Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2, IBM released the first FORTRAN compiler, and the UK's Medical Research Council published an early report linking smoking and lung cancer. There were groundbreaking publications in the fields of superconductivity and astrophysics such as "Theory of Superconductivity" by John Bardeen, L.N. Cooper, and J.R. Schrieffer and "Synthesis of the Elements in Stars… " by Geofrey Burbidge, Margaret Burbidge, William Fowler, and Fred Hoyle.
They further make an important point that while the works listed above grab all the attention, because they were so successful, the real shame is in lots of other works that are simply not available at all any more. And this would likely include all sorts of works from 1985. After all, works created in 1985, if created under the old law, would have been given an initial 28 year copyright term, which would also be expiring, and if history is any guide, the vast majority of those would not have their copyrights renewed. Instead, they're locked up… and quite frequently completely unavailable, with a very real risk of being lost to history.
The really crazy part about all of this is that it's the exact opposite of the entire original purpose of copyright. Copyright law was put in place specifically to encourage the creation of works that would be put into the public domain to promote learning, knowledge and understanding. Yet, instead, it's been distorted, twisted and misrepresented into a system that is used solely to lock stuff up, make it less accessible and less available, limiting the ability to promote knowledge and learning. What a shame.
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At Outside the Beltway, James Joyner calls this "justification" for restoring the draft the dumbest argument yet:
While I oppose bringing back military conscription, there are respectable arguments for doing so. The all-volunteer force allows the sons and daughters of the wealthy and powerful to avoid the burden of fighting our wars. It also makes sending young Americans into harm's way easier.
But Dana Milbank offers a nonsensical reason for denying our youth the freedom to choose their own path:
There is no better explanation for what has gone wrong in Washington in recent years than the tabulation done every two years of how many members of Congress served in the military.
A Congressional Quarterly count of the current Congress finds that just 86 of the 435 members of the House are veterans, as are only 17 of 100 senators, which puts the overall rate at 19 percent. This is the lowest percentage of veterans in Congress since World War II, down from a high of 77 percent in 1977-78, according to the American Legion. For the past 21 years, the presidency has been occupied by men who didn't serve or, in the case of George W. Bush, served in a capacity designed to avoid combat.
It's no coincidence that this same period has seen the gradual collapse of our ability to govern ourselves: a loss of control over the nation's debt, legislative stalemate and a disabling partisanship. It's no coincidence, either, that Americans' approval of Congress has dropped to just 9 percent, the lowest since Gallup began asking the question 39 years ago.
Because so few serving in politics have worn their country's uniform, they have collectively forgotten how to put country before party and self-interest. They have forgotten a "cause greater than self," and they have lost the knowledge of how to make compromises for the good of the country. Without a history of sacrifice and service, they've turned politics into war.
That few in Congress have served in the military is lamentable for many reasons, the most obvious of which is that it not only makes them less intimately familiar with the demands of combat but also tends to undermine civil-military relations by making our civilian leaders afraid to challenge our military brass. But the notion that having worn a military uniform somehow makes one immune from partisanship and foolishness is absurd.
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All those boats have been burned
Megan McArdle on the problem with emulating the Conquistator model of operational planning and burning your boats:
There's a legend that after Hernan Cortes and his crew landed on the shores of the New World, Cortes ordered that their boats be burned. The only way they would be able to get back to Spain would be to conquer the land, giving them the resources to build new boats. With necessity at their backs, his band of adventurers managed to conquer all of Mexico.
It's not clear if this story is actually true, but it's nonetheless beloved by motivational speakers. The last two weeks of political paralysis have been an excellent illustration of why you shouldn't model your negotiation strategy on a guy who's mostly famous for slaughtering strangers.
The state insurance exchanges aren't working, Obamacare is in jeopardy, and Democrats are casting around for a way to blame this on Republicans. The answer they have settled on: It's their fault because Republican governors did not set up exchanges.
Think about what they are actually saying: "We passed a law that was so incredibly fragile that it was destined to fail unless all the state governments controlled by the party that opposed this law worked hard to make the system a success."
And why did they expect this to happen? The answer boils down to this: "After we burn the boats, everyone's supposed to band together to fight the Aztecs!"
I've long criticized the health-care law for being a Rube Goldberg Policy Machine: There are dozens of pieces that all have to work perfectly. If one of them fails, the whole apparatus breaks down and the individual insurance market spirals toward death. That seemed risky to me, especially when the law was passed over fervent opposition — a fervent opposition that was smugly told that "elections have consequences," without anyone apparently considering that future elections might have different consequences.
But in this view, the Rube Goldberg quality is actually a plus, because after all, if we do something that might break the insurance market unless Republicans enthusiastically cooperate, they'll have to enthusiastically cooperate.
This is … what's the technical term? Right, insane.
Start with the fact that the state exchanges — what we would have had if the Republican governors and legislatures had cooperated — aren't all in such great shape, either. Don't get me wrong; some of them are doing very well. But some aren't really working at all, and in others the results are … unclear. And that's in blue states where the governor and the legislature were hugely enthusiastic about this program and are going all out to make it work. As anyone who has ever implemented a new program (corporate or government) can tell you, one of the biggest hurdles is getting people who don't care about your program, or who actively oppose it, to make their piece work. Even if they're trying in good faith, they have neither your enthusiasm nor your deep grasp of the internal logic. In the best-case scenario, it's not their No. 1 priority; when it competes for resources with stuff they really care about, it tends to get the second-string people and budget. This is one reason that promising pilot projects often fail when they're rolled out to the larger organization—and one of the most important things that a corporate innovator has to do is to evangelize his program so that other departments get as enthusiastic as he is.
The Obama administration was not in a position to evangelize the president's health-care program to Republican governors. If the law absolutely required that those governors be as enthusiastic about implementing a state exchange as the folks in the administration, then it was a bad law that should never have been passed, and the Democrats made a grave mistake that could destroy the nation's insurance market.
After the boat-burning failed the first time, leaving it weeks from its debut without a working computer system, the administration seems to have decided that what was needed was simply a larger bonfire: Launch the nonworking system, because after all, once you've gone live, the potential catastrophe would be nearly upon us, which would somehow force those inside and outside the administration to somehow bring order out of the chaos they had created.
But Republicans should make this work! It's the right thing to do! That is, of course, debatable. But aside from that, this is magical thinking — as magical as the Tea Partiers who responded, when I pointed out that the shutdown was costing them the support they'd need to retake the Senate and the White House and actually get some policy making done, that this was all the fault of the liberal media, which was just repeating administration talking points.


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In this theoretical but possible situation, NVIDIA and AMD would continue producing their binary-only drivers while at the same time supporting the alternative open-source drivers that are focused on the "out of the box" experience and not the high-performance full-featured driver that would remain closed-source. With there being open-source alternatives for all major graphics hardware, free software zealots could make the decision (or several decisions over time) that would block critical elements of the kernel that are necessary for the binary drivers to work. If the kernel developers do this and there ends up being no revert of action, they have just severely stabbed Linux.
This would likely result in a fork, legal action, or other challenges in order to overturn such a decision to reach a new common ground. If no common ground was reached, NVIDIA and AMD would be put in an awkward position of not being able to support their workstation customers with the high-performance drivers they need as they can't have some of their third-party intellectual property and other work exposed in an open-source driver. If it were really severe, the workstation business could just pack up and move to another operating system. That's what some fear at least.
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