System76 and Dell offer Linux pre-loaded PCs. But I agree, MS does everything it can to milk cash out of people through whatever means are at its disposal and they ought to have their arse handed to them.
Clinton's surplus includes over a hundred billion a year from Social Security tax that was shoveled into the budget. The problem as you've somewhat pointed out is that the "conservatives" have focused entirely on tax cuts and ignored everything else. Neither party sees the deficit as a problem to be dealt with any time soon.
Our federal budget is 4.5 trillion this year. Why is NASA's ~20 billion so hard to pay for when we seem to have little trouble finding enough to spend about 2.5 trillion on entitlements yearly? Tell ya what; end the agricultural subsidies and we'd free up more than enough to pay for NASA. Maybe then we'd see more actual sugar used instead of that HFCS crap.
I get the feeling that if instead of throwing 15-20 billion at NASA on a yearly basis, we set up a few X-prize style incentives, we'd have done a lot more than NASA has. Set concrete goals for various prizes and only hand them out when the goal is reached. Leave the competition open to *anyone* American, Chinese whatever with the condition that the technology used to acheive the goal is to be put in the public domain.
I think you mean Starcraft Ghost. Although when they split the game into three parts, that was what was most worrying about the whole thing looking like DNF.
Too bad Google didn't tell the Chinese govt. to frak its self in the beginning as well. Then again It'd be like Google saying that the govt. was being unreasonable because Google already prohibited anything on Tiananmen Square anyways.
South Carolina doesn't exactly have the best record on following the constitution so it might not be so ironic that they've decided to toss the first amendment as being irrelevant.
There are two reasons to work: 1) to generate money in order to fulfil our wants and needs and 2) because we want to work in some field; this of course comes after basic needs are fulfilled. If 1) is basically eliminated that leaves 2) which is ideal. It's like arguing that we should never develop cars because then no one would ever need a horse or walk again. In the car example, people walk for exercise and ride horses for fun rather than general transportation. In so far as strong AI like the cylons, that's a legitimate reason to get our ethics in line before we develop AI but not one to stop AI development.
The cost of producing these higher clock speeds appears to be very cost and technologically prohibitive. The operations that can't be parallelized are apparently not important enough to justify higher clock speeds.
Cost. Spending an extra 500$ to double the power makes sense. Spending 5,000$ to increase the power a measly 20% is rather foolish either way you look at it by comparison.
There probably were better ways of increasing computational speed using multicore processor designs than just increasing the clock speed. Kind of like going from a V4 engine to V6 being a better option in terms of power than increasing the individual piston HP of the V4 from 25 to 30.
This has absolutely nothing to do with "wanting something for nothing." The more people working on accessibility, the quicker the work gets done. Naturally the reduction of contributers would be viewed as a bad thing by the OSS community.
All pure economic systems have their flaws and are susceptible to degradation to an oligarchic state. All of them for that matter are susceptible to human greed. Now in so far as communism, the tendency is to move toward a totalitarian state which is hardly better than an anarchy. The hard right capitalists O.T.O.H don't really tend toward anarchy so much as Fascism.
The idea is a very interesting one and the problem isn't so much the risk of electrical shock (done correctly there isn't one) but the cost of the material and the ease to which the material can be replaced if it ever fails. With normal car batteries, replacing them is easy. Just unhook the +/- from the battery and lift it out. With the car body acting as a battery, if something fails, the entire material must be removed. This sounds to me to be fairly expensive as well as having to replace the material which its self may have a fairly significant cost. Over time that will be less the case but the problem of replacing a faulty "battery" remains.
The typical car battery is 12 volts with 6 cells linked in series with ~2 volt drop for each. Hardly the 200-300 volts that you're thinking are required. Even if a 200-300 voltage potential was required, you could take a low voltage source, convert to AC and step up the voltage with a transformer. Not that big of a deal.
Stealing is looking out for your own interests too. However, society has rightfully restricted some selfish behaviors like stealing and fraud because they harm others. The ideal economic system would harness selfish desire to expand markets, increase efficiency and encourage innovation (ideal capitalism). When the economic system encourages self interest to the point of destroying others' wealth it's crony capitalism.
It's referring to various biblical/torah passages that seemingly condone slavery. Many religious people use old testament/torah passages as justification for homophobia and this "can I own a Canadian?" un-sourced letter in particular was a response to that sentiment.
What gets me is that the Slashdot title is exactly the same as the article title except for "months" being replaced with "years." It'd been more accurate if Kdawson had been lazy about it and just copy/pasted the title. I'd filter him out if it weren't like watching a car accident.
but to claim that it has experimental and/or observational support is to lie.
Also dishonest. We have ice core records of CO2 levels stretching back over 600,000 years. We have Beryllium-10 measurements to track solar activity in the geological past as well as Oxygen isotope data to track global climate. You can claim that the data that does exist in favor of AGW is insufficient but to claim that there is none is a complete lie and you know it.
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System76 and Dell offer Linux pre-loaded PCs. But I agree, MS does everything it can to milk cash out of people through whatever means are at its disposal and they ought to have their arse handed to them.
Phone book (n): A giant slab of shredded tree that can be used to prop open the basement door.
Clinton's surplus includes over a hundred billion a year from Social Security tax that was shoveled into the budget. The problem as you've somewhat pointed out is that the "conservatives" have focused entirely on tax cuts and ignored everything else. Neither party sees the deficit as a problem to be dealt with any time soon.
Our federal budget is 4.5 trillion this year. Why is NASA's ~20 billion so hard to pay for when we seem to have little trouble finding enough to spend about 2.5 trillion on entitlements yearly? Tell ya what; end the agricultural subsidies and we'd free up more than enough to pay for NASA. Maybe then we'd see more actual sugar used instead of that HFCS crap.
I get the feeling that if instead of throwing 15-20 billion at NASA on a yearly basis, we set up a few X-prize style incentives, we'd have done a lot more than NASA has. Set concrete goals for various prizes and only hand them out when the goal is reached. Leave the competition open to *anyone* American, Chinese whatever with the condition that the technology used to acheive the goal is to be put in the public domain.
Creationism is equivalent to the flat Earth "theory" in that the only thing that need be mentioned is why neither are scientifically valid.
I can say fuck whenever I like I just prefer Frak. Also I'm a big BSG fan :)
I think you mean Starcraft Ghost. Although when they split the game into three parts, that was what was most worrying about the whole thing looking like DNF.
Too bad Google didn't tell the Chinese govt. to frak its self in the beginning as well. Then again It'd be like Google saying that the govt. was being unreasonable because Google already prohibited anything on Tiananmen Square anyways.
South Carolina doesn't exactly have the best record on following the constitution so it might not be so ironic that they've decided to toss the first amendment as being irrelevant.
There are two reasons to work: 1) to generate money in order to fulfil our wants and needs and 2) because we want to work in some field; this of course comes after basic needs are fulfilled. If 1) is basically eliminated that leaves 2) which is ideal. It's like arguing that we should never develop cars because then no one would ever need a horse or walk again. In the car example, people walk for exercise and ride horses for fun rather than general transportation. In so far as strong AI like the cylons, that's a legitimate reason to get our ethics in line before we develop AI but not one to stop AI development.
The cost of producing these higher clock speeds appears to be very cost and technologically prohibitive. The operations that can't be parallelized are apparently not important enough to justify higher clock speeds.
Cost. Spending an extra 500$ to double the power makes sense. Spending 5,000$ to increase the power a measly 20% is rather foolish either way you look at it by comparison.
There probably were better ways of increasing computational speed using multicore processor designs than just increasing the clock speed. Kind of like going from a V4 engine to V6 being a better option in terms of power than increasing the individual piston HP of the V4 from 25 to 30.
You're education was either 1) public or 2) paid by mommy and daddy. Enough with the plutocratic fuck the poor bullshit.
It might not have been a surprise but it is very unfortunate that Oracle did this.
This has absolutely nothing to do with "wanting something for nothing." The more people working on accessibility, the quicker the work gets done. Naturally the reduction of contributers would be viewed as a bad thing by the OSS community.
All pure economic systems have their flaws and are susceptible to degradation to an oligarchic state. All of them for that matter are susceptible to human greed. Now in so far as communism, the tendency is to move toward a totalitarian state which is hardly better than an anarchy. The hard right capitalists O.T.O.H don't really tend toward anarchy so much as Fascism.
The idea is a very interesting one and the problem isn't so much the risk of electrical shock (done correctly there isn't one) but the cost of the material and the ease to which the material can be replaced if it ever fails. With normal car batteries, replacing them is easy. Just unhook the +/-
from the battery and lift it out. With the car body acting as a battery, if something fails, the entire material must be removed. This sounds to me to be fairly expensive as well as having to replace the material which its self may have a fairly significant cost. Over time that will be less the case but the problem of replacing a faulty "battery" remains.
Nonsense.
The typical car battery is 12 volts with 6 cells linked in series with ~2 volt drop for each. Hardly the 200-300 volts that you're thinking are required. Even if a 200-300 voltage potential was required, you could take a low voltage source, convert to AC and step up the voltage with a transformer. Not that big of a deal.
Stealing is looking out for your own interests too. However, society has rightfully restricted some selfish behaviors like stealing and fraud because they harm others. The ideal economic system would harness selfish desire to expand markets, increase efficiency and encourage innovation (ideal capitalism). When the economic system encourages self interest to the point of destroying others' wealth it's crony capitalism.
It's referring to various biblical/torah passages that seemingly condone slavery. Many religious people use old testament/torah passages as justification for homophobia and this "can I own a Canadian?" un-sourced letter in particular was a response to that sentiment.
What gets me is that the Slashdot title is exactly the same as the article title except for "months" being replaced with "years." It'd been more accurate if Kdawson had been lazy about it and just copy/pasted the title. I'd filter him out if it weren't like watching a car accident.
Also dishonest. We have ice core records of CO2 levels stretching back over 600,000 years. We have Beryllium-10 measurements to track solar activity in the geological past as well as Oxygen isotope data to track global climate. You can claim that the data that does exist in favor of AGW is insufficient but to claim that there is none is a complete lie and you know it.