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See subject & look - I'm NOT interested in what "your kind" has to offer - ok? I'm too busy looking @ "flowers that grow SO incredibly high" https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10889141&cid=54846601/ & yes it's OBVIOUS you wish you were me - your problem? Being a LAZY "ne'er-do-well" who SOMEONE convinced that you can't manage what I have on a lark for fun there... that's YOUR FAULT for being a WEAK beta!

* RoTfLmAo... it's true & you KNOW it!

You relegated YOURSELF to the life of an UNIDENTIFIABLE butthurt PUNY anonymous troll, lol - you did THAT, to yourself!

APK

P.S.=> For "musical accompaniment"? The GREAT Elton John's rendition (superior to the original even by his pals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SZ6J6fjw9w/ per the line I quoted from it (regarding my work that does INCREDIBLY well, surprised me in fact)... apk

Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS vlogger, returns to YouTube!

For quite some time now Linux and FOSS vlogger Nixie Pixel, has been bringing videos about Linux, FOSS, and more to many a thirsty geek. Finally, after a mysterious absence of one year, the vlog darling returns to YouTube.

If you're not familiar with her, she has two channels on YouTube:

NixieDoesLinux, and "NixiePixel.

Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS vlogger, returns to YouTube!

For quite some time now Linux and FOSS vlogger Nixie Pixel, has been bringing videos about Linux, FOSS, and more to many a thirsty geek. Finally, after a mysterious absence of one year, the vlog darling returns to YouTube.

If you're not familiar with her, she has two channels on YouTube:

NixieDoesLinux, and "NixiePixel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Chances are your C program would be easy to transform to C++, line for line

I wasn't implying that it would be difficult. It would become plainly slower. The idea is extremely simple: on one hand, you have virtually nothing; on the other hand, you have much more.

See, although you have had a quite acceptably-understanding attitude, I stopped seeing the exact point of this discussion a while ago. For a reason I don't know, you seem to be interested in convincing me about using C++ rather than C and you think that you have a chance. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you have none (not even 1 out a million LOL). I will finish the referred development in plain C and, unless under very specific conditions, I will continue using other programming languages different than C and C++. I guess that you will continue using C++ and I am OK with it.

For the time being, I am not planning to publicly release this C code, although I have created a repository (it is still preliminary/work-in-progress and I am updating it regularly) with some of its accessory methods. I don't think that it would change anything, but you might even take some of this code, convert it to C++ and do some speed tests (in that case, there might something of interest to add to this conversation). You can find it here (ironically, GitHub has automatically tagged that repository as C++ for a reason I don't know).

The energy of the "shot" delivered should drop with the square of the distance from the target.

Laser light is coherent and doesn't follow the inverse square law. A perfect laser would maintain its energy density at any range. Real world lasers suffer from slight incoherence causing it to slowly spread with distance, and from atmospheric absorption.

Nevertheless, this one shot cost at least $40 million +. The second will result in a cost of $20 million per shot. And, what's the lifetime of the hardware, replacement of end-of-life parts costs and other maintenance costs? It'll take many more than 40 million shots to get down to $1 per shot.

Typically, costs such as this are analyzed as static and dynamic. So a one-time acquisition cost of $40 million, plus $1 of electricity per shot. That allows you to easily compare to other systems (dunno the acquisition cost of a howitzer-type gun, but I do know the shells cost a few hundred dollars each). A crew of three sounds about the same as a regular small gun (one person to load, one to select and track a target, one to aim and fire), so there's no difference in cost there.

Moving targets can take a circuitous and rapidly change directions.

Irrelevant when the target's speed is much slower than the speed of light. Where you see the target is where it is, is where it will be when your laser beam reaches that location.

The article doesn't say whether this uses a pulse laser or a continuous laser. If pulsed, what's the recycle time? A fast moving target may reach its target during the recycle time if that's the case.

The wiki page says the laser is up to about 15-50 kW. There are efficiency losses, especially for high powered lasers. But that level of power should be trivial for a ship to continuously produce. This is also where a lot of spinoffs are going to come from. The R&D they've done to improve efficiency will probably be applicable to future technologies like laser movie projectors for in-home use.

The aiming system, presumably RADAR or some such, must be able to follow such a target and likely uses a mechanical motor driven gear system for that. Can the aiming system follow that spot during the target's travels

This problem was licked in the 1960s when they were trying to get film footage of target drones as they tried to shoot them down. They just stuck a camera on a tracking radar to see how much they'd have to modify the system. Turns out they didn't have to do anything - the drone was dead center in the frame.

How does this system work on targets obscured during rain, fog, cloudy weather or dusty conditions? Light beams become scattered under these conditions and the ability to deliver a destructive energy blast could be hampered.

Dunno what wavelength they're using, but infrared and longer wavelengths aren't affected by rain, fog, clouds, or dust.

You won't like it when it's angry.

I'm sure that somebody at TSA said "OMG, lithium batteries sometimes BLOW UP! We can't let TERRORISTS bring them on airplanes!"
Maybe they saw a scary news clip on CNN or something.

  http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/...
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/vide...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

...but then after a while, somebody said "hey, chill out. Terrorists aren't going to bring down an airplane with a laptop."

I understood that reference! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As an Australian, you can pay $15/mo for Foxtel Now "Pop pack", which includes Game of Thrones

That's a huge improvement over past seasons, which required a very expensive Foxtel package.
However, limited platforms, and the "Foxtel Now" Android app is a steaming pile of excrement. e.g. it works with chromecast, but no FF/RWD ability, just pause. Mostly 1-star ratings in the Play Store. If you have a "Telstra TV" device, it might be better?

A good, funny, explanation of Foxtel Now here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'll stick with Netflix, iView and SBS, and torrent the dragons.

Yes, It's Wonderful, Isn't It?

And a bit more, though I could see the tech in the article being combined to give more realistic effects without the face actor in some scenarios.

He already plays Trump...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Just a more polished version.

Technology already seen in the wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Right, the problem is the theory and practice aren't the same, because in practice we fuck things up with all sorts of goofy permanent rules for things that we can't get rid of, because people will die ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I guess you listen to only MSM. The GOP says yes. Always has said yes. They said they didn't do it and had nothing to do with Russians doing it - which is still true. Otherwise we'd know it. Obama and the Dems said no until they lost. Obama knew it was hacked we found out recently. He knew Russia would be helping his side, not the Republicans. Russia had a nuclear deal with Hillary, look it up. They also donated to her campaign, look that up to. She represented what they wanted, not Donald. Russians have been in bed with the Democrats for many decades, this is no secret. Remember McCarthy? Turned out he was right by the way we found out after the iron curtain fell. So it's very ironic the Dems are accusing the Reps.

Check this out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Space forward to 17:50. Listen to Obama, again we now know that he knew full well the Russians were hacking and intended to hack. That's some quality lying.

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This is most likely due to the sheer length of these trains--it isn't even unusual for premium services to have well in excess of 15 coaches. Trains with non-air-conditioned classes (basically anything with bars on the windows instead of glass) can easily hit 18-20 cars and up. There is a limit to how many cars can be powered off a single generator car (or HEP-equipped locomotive), usually about 15 or so cars max.

---PCJ

If those people on top of the trains are freeloaders who aren't paying, this whole solar panels thing may just be an excuse to get rid of them for good.

I can't see that stopping them. Even overhead electric catenary doesn't (NSFW) :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. The 'working circumstances' and 'slave labour' are both hyperbole and emotional appeals, and have nothing to do with the fact the original claim is completely correct: that modern nuclear plants have been build on budget and on time. You can also look at India, btw, if you find that country more palatable. Or better still, take Korea - South-Korea that is, before you start with the 'slave-argument again - and you'll see a sharp decline in costs. As I've repeatedly pointed out by now, you make the mistake of looking at one or a few examples, and try to interpolate from these anecdotes a general rule. this is not a rational, nor scientific approach. Nor is it, simply, correct to do so.

I also note you give almost no actual references for what you say. Here, let me give you the conclusion of a scientific paper on the subject, which more or less says exactly as I do: that you can't extrapolate from one experience to another. Things like wind energy, solar energy, nuclear energy, water energy, geothermic energy have very specific circumstances, and often are different from country to country. For the question whether one can built nuclear plants on time and on budget, however, one need only to establish that one can, not that one can everywhere in all circumstances. Anyway, here you go:

"The most surprising feature is the large diversity in trends, with the US and South Korea at the two extremes. Countries building reactors more recently, particularly those with construction starts after 1980, have different trend shapes than the early nuclear pioneers. Rather than an “invariable exhibition of negative learning” and “inevitable” increases in complexity intrinsic to nuclear technology that lead to cost escalation (Grubler, 2010), it is clear that there is not a singular cost trend for nuclear technology, but a plurality of different country-specific experiences. A consistent “rhythm” of cost escalation suggested by Grubler (2010) does not match the historical record."

-- Historical construction costs of global nuclear power reactors --

Bottomline: whether you like it or not, it *IS* possible to build nuclear plants on time and on budget. Period.

The same tendency for anecdotal extrapolation and emotional appeal is noticeable with your examples of the 'costs' of three mile island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Yes, those had costs, monetary and death costs. No one is denying that, but that also isn't the issue. What really matter is the statistical analysis between the various energy sources/providers, and see whom, actually, has the most and the least death toll OVERALL. It's irrational to focus on these three examples and disregard the actual safety record of all the different sources in total. And if you do, you get this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's only a little vid, but it's based on hard data, statistically analyzed. I find it ironic you found my comment ironic, thus.

As for hydro not being intermittent... I'll give you partially right. For sure, it's not foreseeable when it rains or how much snowfall there is going to be that melt, so it is, in a sense, intermittent like wind and solar, but on the other hand, it has a much larger buffer then either, and thus can provide a baseload much longer. Let's refrase it thus way, then: it's less intermittent than wind and solar, and more intermittent than nuclear.

I also agree that batteries might make the negative aspects of wind less in the far future, but were not there yet by a long shot. It would need to hold enormous currents for large timeperiods - at least a week to be fairly sure to be able to provide a stable energy. Now, I can concur with that, but then: why is that sort of reasoning not applied in reciprocity. Yes, in the future, wind may become a better alternative. But so does nuclear. There is no reason why nuclear couldn't improve neither in the future IF you do researc

Another chip manufacturer that cannot be used for trustworthy IT infrastructure. Who's next on the chopping block?

Better get rid of ARM, too, since ARM has the same thing.

In fact, I believe AMD licensed ARM's technology for it - it's called TrustZone, and it separates out threads of execution into "secure" and "open" modes. Your regular OS runs in the "open" mode, and makes calls into the secure OS, which can be used to keep stuff like encryption keys away from the main OS. (You can use it for disk encryption - get the secure OS to generate a key, save it, and load the encryption key into the onboard encryption hardware, so none of the user software touches it. If you rip out the disk, it's useless because the key is locked away).

Several DRM schemes also use it, including Google's Widevine DRM (requires it in order to work).

And yes, the secure OS has full access to the main OS and all the peripherals.

The boot chain must be strictly controlled - you have to start with a onboard ROM monitor that verifies the images as they load before transferring control the open world OS. Otherwise you can load any code you want. I'm not sure how AMD processors boot, but all ARM processors using TrustZone have a boot ROM that verifies the next stage bootloaders (and secure OS) before loading them into memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here is a congressman's views of the Fourth Amendment:

"You can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy has been violated".@0:54

Now who is the traitor?

This is a terrible blow against bollywood.
No longer will they be able to film dance scenes on trains without resorting to CGI.

Captcha: villains

Your ignorance does not change the debate. Climate change was not proven in the 1870's. As far as I can tell there was just a few, albeit correct, arguments about CO2 being released into the atmosphere. Just because you worked in the energy sector does not make you an expert and it does make Hansen, or myself wrong about energy. Check out this video of Hansen from a few years ago

My favorite ancient hunting technique is stealing food from lions.

So exactly what kinds of humans are they talking about here?

The kind that can beat Nazi Dinosaurs

I hope you like jabba too

humans riding dinosaurs based on no evidence at all

Oh really? Then explain this! Checkmate atheists.

"Responsible international countries"

LOL

Reminds me of some beauty pageant contender show I saw a clip of back in the day.

Biometrics are things you can't change at all. So when somebody cracks yours you are fucked.

And they don't provide 5th Amendment protection. Biometrics is "who" you are. Not "what you know". You can be forced to put your finger on something by a court and a couple of goons, but the court will be violating constitutional rights by forcing you to testify against yourself.

You are an "oxymorinic" :P ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It pisses me off that drivers think their gasoline taxes pay for the roads, when in fact gasoline taxes and other user fees pay less than half of the cost of the roads.

Then they build bike paths to get bicycles out of their way and expect bicyclists to pay for them.

Then they complain about bicycles rolling through stop signs while selectively ignoring drivers who don't come to a complete stop.

And by the way, did you know that drivers violate the right of way of pedestrians more often than the other way around? We need more crosswalk stings in order to get those drivers off the road.

Considering that they already deny people the right to collect rainwater it wouldn't be surprising. They will probably introduce a sunlight tax, air tax, and cellular function tax in the near future as well. Better get out of the state before there's a leavin' tax. And don't just stand around because there's a standin' tax.

Biometrics are things you can't change at all. So when somebody cracks yours you are fucked.

Biometrics are things you can't change at all. So when somebody cracks yours you are fucked.

Did they have machine gun jubblies?

Man you are lucky it wasn't kitten videos or worse.

We had this in the loop instead.

Cisco Gangnam Style Versus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYPf-hcajo

Anti intellectualism is rampant. Hell there was just a poll the other day that most republicans thought college was bad. That poll should have been more than a footnote in history. It indicates a terrible rot in society itself when the places we learn are considered the problem in our society.

Is it still anti-intellectualism when it's a professor saying it? The problem is that colleges are no longer the places we learn, they are places of neomarxist indoctrination.

This is why we were supposed to vote for Hillary.

And let's be honest. It's why there's a new female time lord. Not because it would be the best actor, but because it appears the mission of Dr. Who is to further feminist and social justice ideas. Not primarily make a TV show people might be interested in seeing.

The BBC is an organization that is top-heavy with SJWs, and it's why they use censorship.

This is why we were supposed to vote for Hillary.

And let's be honest. It's why there's a new female time lord. Not because it would be the best actor, but because it appears the mission of Dr. Who is to further feminist and social justice ideas. Not primarily make a TV show people might be interested in seeing.

The BBC is an organization that is top-heavy with SJWs, and it's why they use censorship.

Not a single episode went by without them putting some focus on her liking girls and/or (mostly and) some slavery reference. It was tedious, annoying, helped nothing, and damaged the story lines.

You know a TV show has "jumped the shark" when they feel it's necessary to deviate from normal plot lines and become "preachy" in this manner. The writers either run out of ideas or want to push an agenda. What's more, the result is truly cringe worthy and does not age well. Back in the day the popular TV series MASH did this more than once. It happens in entertainment regularly.

But this signals the primary problem with social justice agendas. What happens when *there is no more oppression*??

They have to create the oppression that doesn't exist

In many areas women have now exceeded men (e.g. college attendance) and women can be anything they want.

Does that mean that we have to put a woman everywhere a man is for no other reason than to just show that it can be done? Apparently according to the Dr. Who franchise, the answer is yes.

The public may be less accepting of this idea though. Hillary ran on this concept, and look where it got her.

You didn't ask me specifically and I'm a bit late but basically it comes down to having a dedicated GPU passed through to that vm exclusively. That works through IOMMU.

If nothing breaks in this "hack" then you shouldn't even notice much performance loss.

Linus Tech Tipps ran 8+ gamers on one really beefy unraid (IIRC) machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and the experience seemed to be rather adequate.

Can some black hat please please DDOS all sites affiliated with this trolll?

You must be very desperate to have my websites and YouTube account targeted for DDOS.

Sometimes hosting providers like dreamhost suspend accounts when they become too problematic, it occurred before.

My web hosting account has been holding up quite well from the extra gigabytes of Slashdot traffic.

Something like this Ernie Kovacs.

First off, I did have a pilot's license and I definitely understand how autopilot's work and what their capabilities are.

Regardless, this is how the average person sees an autopilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yeah. I think a lot of people think I'm kind of a business person or something, which is fine. Business is fine. But really it's like at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is Chief Operating Officer. She manages legal, finance, sales, and general business activity. And then my time is almost entirely with the engineering team, working on improving the Falcon 9 and our Dragon spacecraft and developing the Mars Colonial architecture

Kind of appropriate for a physicist, wouldn't you say?

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It's already been invented

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut0WDb-xzks

a man who doesn't win through force, but through wits and snark rather than action.

I never minded when he got violent if he really needed to, if you want to see a clever guy who's afraid to even touch a gun go watch MacGuyver.

For the female demographic, they wanted to travel with a sexy, powerful man who takes them on dangerous adventures. Look how many fangirls fawn over David Teninch and Matt Smith's portrayal of the Doctor.

I don't think the female demographic was looking to be the Doctor.

Agreed, fangirls tended to want to be a companion rather that the Doctor. I've seen quite a few fangirls complaining already about this announcement.

People believe peple in IT, alt hey di is browse the web and play video games...

heh, reminds me of this funny video, Sales Guy vs. Web Dude. How can the IT guy get important work done when always getting pestered by incompetent people?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...