Why aren't GPU chips replaceable on a video card like you would a CPU chip on a motherboard? Is it not technically feasible? economic reasons? just a dumb idea? why?
Re-balling GPU is what you're looking for and you can only use an identical chip. Not feasible for repair but there are people who buy overheated computer hardware (Solder usually gives out first.) and re-ball the chips before selling them used.
Anyone know of a good solution to crate a database to be accessible online? I am thinking M$ Access but want to open it up in case something else is available. Mainly going to be used to keep track of my board game collection so I can get out of Google sheets.
Anyone know of a good solution to crate a database to be accessible online? I am thinking M$ Access but want to open it up in case something else is available. Mainly going to be used to keep track of my board game collection so I can get out of Google sheets.
You can't just make a database directly accessible online. You have to put a web application in front of it.
If you just want to keep track of your collection, why not use BGG?
Anyone know of a good solution to crate a database to be accessible online? I am thinking M$ Access but want to open it up in case something else is available. Mainly going to be used to keep track of my board game collection so I can get out of Google sheets.
Access is the worst choice to put anything online. No file/record locking, etc., so no guarantees of integrity if multiple people access it. By "multiple people," I'm even including "you access it while at work, forget you're still connected at work, then modify it at home." That's a potential corruption right there.
What Scott said is true. You pretty much need to toss a web app in front a database to put it online.
On that note, why should I watch Kill La Kill? I got fourteen episodes in, and found it intolerable the whole way. Shinchiro Watanabe said at his Otakon Q&A that anime these days takes too much influence from other anime, and not enough external sources of influence, and KLK is damn near the pinnacle of that.
KLK is very much a love letter to old anime, and it's one you watch if you want explosions, hot blood, and everything you associate with "anime" pared down to its bare essentials and then turned up to 11.
Honestly, episodes 14/15 were my favorites so far, and if it's not doing things for you by that point, it's not a show you'll like. It runs very hard off of nostalgia for "old-school" anime along with animation gags, and you probably just didn't like the things they're homaging that much in the first place.
Can somebody explain to me the significance of Seton Hall beating Villanova. I have absolutely no clue about college basketball but Twitter is going nuts over it.
How does LinkedIn know I listen to the show? Apreche keeps getting suggested as a contact, but I've never given that site any indication that the connection would make sense.
Can somebody explain to me the significance of Seton Hall beating Villanova. I have absolutely no clue about college basketball but Twitter is going nuts over it.
Seton Hall is such a garbage school, they send me junk mail trying to get me to apply. My best guess is that Villanova is not a garbage school, and that's why it's significant.
Can somebody explain to me the significance of Seton Hall beating Villanova. I have absolutely no clue about college basketball but Twitter is going nuts over it.
Villanova is a school here that's famous - among schoolchilderen - for having a student that was expelled for fucking a dog. Unusually for these sorts of rumors, it's actually true.
In the context of the college basketball tournament, here's what happened.
Villanova was ranked as the best team in their conference and the third best team overall in the nation. They had 28 wins and only 3 losses on the season coming into this game. Seton Hall was the lowest ranked team in their conference championship tournament and had an even 16-16 record. Seton Hall somehow managed to beat Villanova, and the sports pundits are talking up how it'll make things much more difficult for Villanova in the national championship tournament as they'll have to enter as a lower-ranked at-large team as opposed to a higher-ranked automatic qualifier for winning their conference.
What made it even more crazy is Seton Hall managed to pull off the win on a last second shot as the buzzer went off.
Anyone know of a good solution to crate a database to be accessible online? I am thinking M$ Access but want to open it up in case something else is available. Mainly going to be used to keep track of my board game collection so I can get out of Google sheets.
Access is the worst choice to put anything online. No file/record locking, etc., so no guarantees of integrity if multiple people access it. By "multiple people," I'm even including "you access it while at work, forget you're still connected at work, then modify it at home." That's a potential corruption right there.
What Scott said is true. You pretty much need to toss a web app in front a database to put it online.
Via Mike, I'd probably just use this if you want a database of boardgames that you can "access online" without writing any webapps.
I think I already know the answer to this question here, but just because I need to let off a bit of steam: "Ask-a-Nation" style panels: good or wack?
At least it's anime? It's possible to have one be not crappy. I think I remember Emily talking about one that was actually not awful. Most of the time, it's whack.
At least it's anime? It's possible to have one be not crappy. I think I remember Emily talking about one that was actually not awful. Most of the time, it's whack.
Yeah, it's at least anime, but when you have 300+ panel submissions, you usually have no shortage of anime panels to choose from.
I approved one on the schedule at AB this year, under the hope that it may not be awful, because supposedly it was going to use an Ask-a-Nation format to teach history. No idea if it's going to be any good or not, but at least it is an attempt to elevate it above the typical Ask-a-Nation panel.
"Ask a Nation" is basically "I want a free badge for me and my ten friends, but don't want to provide any worthwhile content to the convention at all."
"Ask a Nation" is basically "I want a free badge for me and my ten friends, but don't want to provide any worthwhile content to the convention at all."
At least at AB, only the organizer gets a free badge (in most circumstances). :P However, that quote does sum up the vast majority of "Ask a Nation" panels.
It can be done better. Given how I hope the "historical Ask a Nation" panel is going to run, you could, for example, have someone cosplaying Italy who would respond to questions like "Why did Mussolini side with Germany in WW2?" Said cosplayer would give a reasonably historically accurate answer while staying in character.
However, most "Ask a Nation" panels would instead have the Italy cosplayer answering questions like, "Who would you rather boink, Germany or Russia?"
"Ask a Nation" is basically "I want a free badge for me and my ten friends, but don't have any worthwhile content to provide to the convention at all."
FTFY. I don't think they're malicious, they're just incompetent.
Wow, ok. Do the panel scheduling staff get bribes to add these to the schedule? What's the going rate on this? Because I can't think of a single reason these panels wouldn't be a terrible idea.
"Ask a Nation" is basically "I want a free badge for me and my ten friends, but don't have any worthwhile content to provide to the convention at all."
FTFY. I don't think they're malicious, they're just incompetent.
Same here, unless they start acting indignant over being denied.
Wow, ok. Do the panel scheduling staff get bribes to add these to the schedule? What's the going rate on this? Because I can't think of a single reason these panels wouldn't be a terrible idea.
It depends on the convention and who's running panels there. Nowadays, if the person running panels happens to be a fan of those sorts of panels, for example, they may put them in due to their own personal biases.
Up until a couple of years ago, they weren't that much of a problem. Most of the questionable panels were things along the line of "This is my favorite show/game/band/movie/etc. Let's just hang out and talk about how awesome my favorite thing is!" They weren't my preferred panel to select, but if the show in question was new/popular/recently licensed by an industry partner, I'd toss the applicant/fandom a bone and approve the panel. I used to handle "Ask a Nation" panels the same way (before I really knew just what they were about), although they almost always have even less to do with the actual property in question than the "Let's talk about my favorite thing" panels.
When "Ask a Nation" panels started becoming more and more prevalent, then it basically became a case of "this fandom is still pretty crazy, I'll throw them a bone if I can't find anything better to schedule." I'd usually schedule these towards the end of my scheduling process, when I'm like, "Okay, I've got one more panel slot left and all I've got left that's somewhat relevant is 'Ask a Nation.' I guess I'll throw them a bone."
This year, I had a record number (300+) of panel applications too choose from as well as a substantially higher quality of applications. Whereas in previous years I'd almost always have to pick a decent number of so-so panels just to fill a room, this year I actually had to turn down lots of high-quality sounding panels. Among the applications were something like a dozen variations of "Ask a Nation," almost all of which were for Hetalia fandom. The educational "Ask a Nation" panel seemed like the best way to appease both the large Hetalia fandom while providing something that hopefully provides useful content for the con. If it wasn't for the hope of history education in this "Ask a Nation" panel, I would not have approved any of them this year.
Comments
Not feasible for repair but there are people who buy overheated computer hardware (Solder usually gives out first.) and re-ball the chips before selling them used.
If you just want to keep track of your collection, why not use BGG?
What Scott said is true. You pretty much need to toss a web app in front a database to put it online.
Honestly, episodes 14/15 were my favorites so far, and if it's not doing things for you by that point, it's not a show you'll like. It runs very hard off of nostalgia for "old-school" anime along with animation gags, and you probably just didn't like the things they're homaging that much in the first place.
Villanova was ranked as the best team in their conference and the third best team overall in the nation. They had 28 wins and only 3 losses on the season coming into this game. Seton Hall was the lowest ranked team in their conference championship tournament and had an even 16-16 record. Seton Hall somehow managed to beat Villanova, and the sports pundits are talking up how it'll make things much more difficult for Villanova in the national championship tournament as they'll have to enter as a lower-ranked at-large team as opposed to a higher-ranked automatic qualifier for winning their conference.
What made it even more crazy is Seton Hall managed to pull off the win on a last second shot as the buzzer went off.
I approved one on the schedule at AB this year, under the hope that it may not be awful, because supposedly it was going to use an Ask-a-Nation format to teach history. No idea if it's going to be any good or not, but at least it is an attempt to elevate it above the typical Ask-a-Nation panel.
It can be done better. Given how I hope the "historical Ask a Nation" panel is going to run, you could, for example, have someone cosplaying Italy who would respond to questions like "Why did Mussolini side with Germany in WW2?" Said cosplayer would give a reasonably historically accurate answer while staying in character.
However, most "Ask a Nation" panels would instead have the Italy cosplayer answering questions like, "Who would you rather boink, Germany or Russia?"
.........
...
Up until a couple of years ago, they weren't that much of a problem. Most of the questionable panels were things along the line of "This is my favorite show/game/band/movie/etc. Let's just hang out and talk about how awesome my favorite thing is!" They weren't my preferred panel to select, but if the show in question was new/popular/recently licensed by an industry partner, I'd toss the applicant/fandom a bone and approve the panel. I used to handle "Ask a Nation" panels the same way (before I really knew just what they were about), although they almost always have even less to do with the actual property in question than the "Let's talk about my favorite thing" panels.
When "Ask a Nation" panels started becoming more and more prevalent, then it basically became a case of "this fandom is still pretty crazy, I'll throw them a bone if I can't find anything better to schedule." I'd usually schedule these towards the end of my scheduling process, when I'm like, "Okay, I've got one more panel slot left and all I've got left that's somewhat relevant is 'Ask a Nation.' I guess I'll throw them a bone."
This year, I had a record number (300+) of panel applications too choose from as well as a substantially higher quality of applications. Whereas in previous years I'd almost always have to pick a decent number of so-so panels just to fill a room, this year I actually had to turn down lots of high-quality sounding panels. Among the applications were something like a dozen variations of "Ask a Nation," almost all of which were for Hetalia fandom. The educational "Ask a Nation" panel seemed like the best way to appease both the large Hetalia fandom while providing something that hopefully provides useful content for the con. If it wasn't for the hope of history education in this "Ask a Nation" panel, I would not have approved any of them this year.