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  1. Surely future looks black. on Obama Taps Charles Bolden To Lead NASA · · Score: 1

    Now that america has finally chosen black president, there is black power to put black in the power of every thing. Future of the america really looks black when black man is putting a budget in black and cutting protections against black death and putting black in positions of power to raise other black in position of power. Oh. Future looks so black.

  2. Green or NOT on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 0

    Well they claim its clean in everyway, but it just makes me wonder one thing. If they take solar energy that normally wouldn't reach lower atmosphere and beam it directly to ground level what happens around the area where they beam it. Can it start changing weather, and what kind problems there will be when it reaches the scale in which it will be solution to worlds energy problems. I don't know it they would really have clean solution if applied to ALL energy use.

    First problem is reliability. It isn't protected by earths atmosphere and there are situations in which magnetosphere won't protect enough.
    Its one of those things, that a single meteor storm of small meteors that cannot reach the earth could literally take out ALL satellites they have, or some strong solar activity could make them offline for a while.
    And worst of those is the thing that it gets broken and its beam starts wandering around.
    Probably its not SO clean when considering ALL the emissions required for getting a satellite on orbit. Any way I haven't done any calculations on it so all is still speculation, unlike on some other green ideas.

    Lots of "green" ideas won't be so green when applied to everyone on planet. For instance some "green" farming technologies double the area required for farming. Now if everyone would do that=double world farming area= bad for environment.
    Biodiesel= maybe useful if done from waste. But try solve worlds energy problem by it and world doesn't have enough rain forest to convert to agricultural lands to supply all the demand for energy ;) .

  3. Find one in non-IT firm. on Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic? · · Score: 1

    I'm part time IT worker. The company is small non-IT firm. No-ONE except me knows any programming, everyone does something else. There is really little work there, but it MUST be done, and you cannot really swap that guy all the time since it takes lots of time to learn the things required to do the work, so it needs to be in-house job.
    How I got it? A friend was before me there and his last task was to find someone for his job, when he switched to full time position elsewhere.

  4. Re:Use existing technology on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 1

    You have to be outside of company for that to work.

  5. Re:Captain disillusion on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 1

    assuming you don't let people do dumb things on the machines on each end of the VPN tunnerl

    Thats quite an assumption. Perhaps the one that fails when scaled to tens or hundreds of shopkeepers.

  6. Re:Would it help if on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    Paging file in packaged filesystem with diskcache, where diskcache is AFTER packaging.
    Used that to play some games which required more dram that I had. Back in dos days.

  7. Re:Only 4 GB? on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    Oh. A woman who is easily impressed.
    What a rarity.

  8. Re:You mean physical memory right :-) on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    Just have standard answer, if YOU cannot turn on your computer please contact the computer supplier we cannot do anything about it.

  9. Re:First buy a book of sci fi cliches. on Breaking Into Games Writing? · · Score: 1

    You're not exactly competing with Dickens. You're not even competing with Dick.

    Unless he wants to work in the field of porn videogames, which also suffers from a lack of quality writing.

    Oh. YES.
    GIMME MORE.

  10. Re:Tab on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    shhhhh -xxx

    Should give ya the effect u want. U can use image viewer and firefox with that also.

  11. Re:Who Chooses? on First Mars-Goers Should Prepare For a One-Way Trip · · Score: 1

    Yeah. As internet makes the world smaller we need to have fence around the criminals in the virtual world also.

  12. Re:What Has Changed? on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    At some point in some distributions, the swap partition accumulated the used pages. If something was swapped in the pages were kept in page partition also, so that next time if nothing changed in the page there would be no disk activity in swapping them out. That resulted swap partition being required to be far larger than system memory to be use full. Since you would end up far less free pages there.

  13. ALL HAIL GNU! on Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And some people don't kill because they fear eternal damnation.

    'm sure there are other reasons. What's yours?

    They don't stay still during a ritual sacrifice, for the GNU god. We must open their sources for the GNU god, its for common good.

  14. Re:I believe the following covers it: on How To Deal With Internet Bullies? · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, you are completely wrong. There are far more to this than the message of that picture.

  15. How to measure success of the teachers. on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    Give standardized tests on ALL students of the (country, or state) where teachers them self do not get the tests when they teach. Then here's good thing. Send exams to some central authority to check. Make exam so hard and large so nobody is expected to get full points, have diverse questions...

    5% get lowest grade, 1% highest grade. 4% next, 10% every other grade.
    Give teacher points based on AVERAGE grade of the students based on that grading.

    PS. We have in Finland an exam that actually puts gaussian curve for high school students in their final year. 5% fail each exam, and 5% get top grade. Failing exam isn't show stopper. You can try again, or for some subjects, just ignore the grade and graduate with passing grades in other subjects.

  16. Re:In other news.... on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    Rest of the World thinks Global warming is real thing, and acts on it, its the well educated masses of north america that has the doubts.
    Rest of the worlds scientist are just dumb, its the smart americans who have benefitted from superiour education from TV and newspapers that have learned. Damn biased europeans, luckily americans have trustworthy goverment who doesn't lie nor pressure anyone to agree with the image goverment wants to give to people.

  17. Re:No, No, No, No, No... on SwiftFuel Alternative To Alternative Fuels · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nuclear is pretty much infinite resource if reprocessing takes place. The price of fuel is so small percentage in nuclear powerplant costs that you can increase the uranium extraction costs by 10x and still be profitable. Really, we do have enough uranium for producing entire worlds CURRENT electricity consumption for tens of thousands of years. Yes there is 10^5 times the current "estimate of economical mining" reserves, if we use
    a) fuel reprocessing.
    b) breeder reactors
    And the fuel cycle improvements give another 10^3 increase over current model. So its 10^8 increase over what figure people talk about the current economic reserves just by one cent electricity price increase since last study. Or that much reductions in operating costs by making all parts of nuclear economy higher volume production.

  18. Re:You don't seem to understand the point... on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 1

    No president wants to give precedence to the case that presidents could be thrown to international court outside United States after their term, for their actions in office.

  19. Re:You don't seem to understand the point... on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 1

    You are absolutely right about him being a figurehead. Bush couldn't think up, much less pull off the things that have happened since he took office.

    That doesn't mean SOMEBODY thought up the things that have happened since he took office.

  20. There is real future for it... on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 1

    Think about paper cuts of the past.
    Phear my L33t paper plane.

  21. Re:nerd credentials? on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Thats why, its far better to VISIT non-tech university campuses if you are tech student.

  22. Re:nerd credentials? on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Enlish is not my native language, nor it is native language of the girls here.

  23. In 2000 years from now. on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Jedi is the majority religion of entire solarsystem ;)

  24. Re:nerd credentials? on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    I personally think that attracting ONE excellent girl that stays for rest of my life is good enough.
    Well you have been looking in wrong places ;)
    In cafeteria next to behaviour sciences department library was a great place for that.
    Provided you can actually TALK to people who get around and have something to proof you are smart.
    1) In behaviour department the female/male ratio is such that women try to attract you.

    All in normal table discussion, I needed to tell is I don't drink, or smoke and got top credit out of math in the national exam, and they said "WOW they never knew any smart males". [didn't work out she was non-believer and I'm fundamentalist.]

    Of course I found my wife in church. But really if you are smart and have something actually accomplished for that, female heavy universitys campus areas are best place for finding someone.
    There are many lonely women there, who just want someone with brains to love them.

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