But can Apple be blamed for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals? For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole App Store system? And if the whole App Store system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our computing institutions in general? I put it to you - isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
I set up Windows Media Center on Vista and I like the way it works. It's pretty simple to use and set up. I bought a 2 tuner card for it so I can record 2 shows simultaneously. Even more useful is the integration with Amazon UnBox and Video On Demand. It just works. Makes trips to the video store extraneous. I haven't tried Netflix as I want simple on demand outside of my cable box. This machine is set up in the living room, and is hooked up to a 37 inch panel. I bought the overpriced remote for Media Center and that works well too (although the kids keep losing it) Overall, I'm happy with the quality, and plan on upgrading to Windows 7 at some point, but really don't have a need as it simply works well now.
Now, cue the MS Haters and mod me down. I know, I know... I'm stupid and don't know what I'm talking about.
I work with AS400 and iSeries machines (and I accept your collective condolences). When I first got trained on them, the teachers told us that OS400 has never been hacked. Not having any real data to confront them, I just let it pass. When we covered the section about user ids and passwords, I found out that 400's force you to disable a user id and password after a certain, finite number of logon attempts. This was by design. All user ids, including system administrator ids had to have some number (I forget how high you can set it) of illegal attempts before the id is locked out. (Usually this is set to 3) They explained, smugly, that this was to keep out intruders.
We further learned that user id's could not be set to more than 10 characters. So I raised my hand and asked what happened if all the user accounts got disabled. They said that IBM would have to back door their way in to unlock a system administrator account, and from that account, others could be reset. (This would be BAD and time consuming, so it was good practice to keep a few SYSADMIN accounts around just in case) I asked if they had ever heard of a denial of service attack. Of course they said. So I asked the obvious question, "What if someone wrote a script to log on to every 10 digit user account 3 times with a blank password?" The reply was "Why would anyone do THAT?"
I pointed out that while I couldn't "hack" their system by their definitions, I could sure as heck turn it into a boat anchor, and do it remotely if it was hooked to the Internet... "Yes, but you can't HACK it was the reply..."
"The cells were then incubated in a solution containing nutrients to encourage them to multiply indefinitely. This nutritious “broth” is derived from the blood products of animal foetuses, although the intention is to come up with a synthetic solution.
So lets see... leaving aside for the moment blood borne illness issues, right now we'd have to grow the "artificial" meat using animal fetus blood... and where will we get all that animal fetus blood? Perhaps we can just raise animal fetuses? And how will the "synthetic" solution be made? From "synthetic" fetuses? Turtles all the way down, I think.
I can't. But what I can do is speculate on it based on the history of this civilization. We've had rocks fall from the sky regularly and cause huge die-offs. Super volcanos erupt regularly and cause extinction level events - the Yellowstone caldera is an excellent example and is overdue for a massive eruption. The Toba event brought the human species down to perhaps 10,000 mating pairs of humans. We've had numerous close calls with nuclear weapons including the Cuban Missile Crisis, and one where the Soviets came dangerously close to launching their weapons based on faulty early warning data.
Now it's your turn. Name a science experiment that nearly terminated human life on Earth.
The problem is, there is cause for real concern. Maybe not with the LHC but with science in general. 1. The universe is vast, and old. It's quite clear that, if life is as common as we think it is, the universe should be filled with ancient civilizations. 2. We have no evidence of any alien life... where are they? 3. We have a very rudimentary understanding of physics. 4. It may very well be that it is common for civilizations to evolve to the point at which we are at but then mistakenly destroy themselves through, what at first appear to be benign experiments. Not saying it will be a micro blackhole... or even the LHC. But we had better watch it. There might be a very simple reason that SETI hasn't found anything yet. They're all dead.
It is FAR more likely that if your theory is true, these ancient dead civilizations killed themselves off via the use of WMDs or through some other environmental catastrophe, whether caused by nature or their own stupidity. The likelihood that a scientist makes a mistake in an experiment and wipes out their whole civilization would be far down the list of possible causes of dead civilizations...
I bought a Droid on Friday morning when it came out online. I received it at lunch on Monday, and activated. Upon activation, they made me agree to the 2 year contract re-up, and a $175 early termination fee...
Is there no other option than using the eSlate machine? What if I'm blind. What if I have no limbs? There must be some sort of alternative. OTOH, I'd be curious to know how they USED to vote... was it paper ballot before? Here in the northeast, we had voting lever machines with mechanical tabulation... would he have refused to use that form of mechanical computer? We now use paper ballots but they are scanned by a computer. Would he refuse that as well? And at some point, the votes end up on a computer... Just how opposed is he here?
Crackpot here... Your premise is absolutely wrong - we will NEVER run out of oil. It simply won't happen. If you dare read on, I'll explain why...
There is this thing called supply and demand. In general, as supply falls, the price goes up and demand goes down. This has been demonstrated to be true time and time again.
Now, as the total world oil supply falls, the price will rise and demand will fall. Taking it to extremes, you'll find that when oil gets to $1000 or $10,000 per barrel, we won't be burning it anymore. We'll be putting it in a museum, or wearing it for perfume or some other purpose. Maybe we'll make it a crime to sell it like we do with whale oil today. A guy recently tried to sell it for $40 per ounce (which would be $158,000 per barrel)
But at the end of the day, we'll NEVER run out of oil. We'll simply replace it when it gets too expensive.
"Copyright 2009, All Rights Reserved - NOTICE: This email has been digitally encrypted with the Double ROT13 encryption algorithm. Any unauthorized access is a violation of the DMCA and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law"
It is interesting that they tagged it as BS and invalidated the experiment by using the single photon results... but these "major physicist" all disagree as to exactly WHY it's invalided... some say that there is no which-way information, others say there is but that it fails for other reasons... I don't really understand all the implications of the experiment, but I found his approach novel and insightful, and the stir it caused very amusing. And I still leave room for the possibility that Copenhagen may in fact be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time that "settled science" has been turned upside down.
The only edge PCs still have is the keyboard and mouse as a controller.
This is SO true... I used to play Wolf and then Doom and then Duke Nukem at work at lunch... We'd have 6-8 guys playing on a server and I got pretty good at it. The ability to strafe sideways while aiming precisely with the mouse was a huge plus... Eventually I sold out and moved up to management and couldn't play anymore.
I gave up the FPS games after that until recently. We now have an Xbox 360 and play a lot of 4 player CoD. I suck. And it's because of the controller. There just isn't enough precision in the joysticks on the controller and no way to customize them.
Some will say that I just suck and it isn't really the controller. But I wanted to find out. I have about 4-5 PC's in my house and decided to installed the freeware Wolf game. Graphics are clearly inferior to the CoD game on the Xbox. But I had my trusty keyboard and mouse available to me again. So we all started playing it when the Xbox was gone. ( we were borrowing it at the time). I rocked. Nobody could beat me. The same people that fragged me to no end on CoD were just meat to me.
'
Maybe I'm just controller ethnocentristic. And maybe my opponents are too. But I'll take a mouse and keyboard any day over the Xbox controller.
Not true... not true at all. I play blackjack about once a month. When I do, I bring my "basic strategy" card with me. Mostly I don't need it anymore, but it will tell you what you should do to maximize your odds for any given dealer card in combination with your present hand. IF you follow the card exactly and every time, you get to that magic 1% house advantage.
However, if they changed the rules and set them up with a 1% player advantage, I'm still convinced that the house would win. Someone like me would be able to beat them over time. And there would be others like me. At a $10 table, they would lose, on average, 10 cents per hand. If you could play 60 hands an hour, they'd be paying me $6.00 an hour to play...
They'd still make money though, because of the people sitting next to me. I've seen amazing things. I've seen the "don't take a card if it can break your hand" people. They won't take a card when the dealer has a 10 showing, and they have 12. Even though it is roughly 2:1 against them breaking, they won't take that card. I've also seen the "double my 12" hand. Ask them if they're sure? Sure they're sure! Good judgment is swimming upstream against the whiskey. Then there's the guy who watches for a while, puts $20 on the table, bets it on one hand, loses, and then walks away. No law of large numbers for him! Frankly, my guess is that the average take at the blackjack table is nothing like 1% - it's closer to 5-10% because of insane play by stupid people.
Mod Parent Up. I'm running the Win 7 beta 64 bit. Rock solid. Right now have 4 gig of ram. All of it used by the OS. Paging never happens. Granted that I haven't spun it up much lately, but if I do see swapping, I'll spring for the additional 8 gig of ram for a total of 12. I'm pretty sure that XP, even the 64 bit version, would choke on that basis against Win 7...
You should read TFA... it's long but really insightful. To your point above, the article points out that UAVs can score hits whenever they want, which means they can also WAIT to score hits. So if the bad guy you've been watching for the last week is now a target, you don't have to drop the bomb on him when he's walking around with women and children. You can wait until he's alone, or when they've left to drop the bomb on him...
Also, the article described an incident where a guy fires off some mortar rounds, then picks up the mortar and throws it in his trunk and leisurely drives away. The drone followed him and hit him when he was far away from any collateral damage (driving by a river in this case). What is interesting is that the drone continued to watch as another car pulled up, people got out, took the mortar out of his trunk and threw it in the river. Now the insurgent we just killed is seen as a civilian...
"The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it."
I've often thought that a good place for a data center would be adjacent to a hydro-electric plant. Hydro has it's disadvantages as an electrical generation source, but that ship has sailed so to speak (fish ladders, upstream and downstream shore effects). Given that we have them, we could use data centers to mitigate one of the existing environmental problems of hydro dams, namely cold water pollution.
One of the effects of a hydro dam is that it releases very cold water downstream, much colder than the water would be if the dam were not there. Case in point is a trip I took with Scouts a few years ago. After portaging our canoes, we require everyone to wash with a grease cutting soap to mitigate the effects of any poison ivy we may have tromped through. Not a problem, as it is generally fun to jump into the fast moving water that is released at the base of a dam. The only problem is that the water is COLD. It comes from the bottom of the reservoir, so it is naturally colder than the water flowing normally. As an aside, we had some scouts from Bermuda with us, and when the first one jumped in, he came up barely able to breath because the water was so cold. I don't think he'd ever felt water that cold!
Anyway, it seems to me that the water being released could be warmed before being discharged if there was a data center that could "harness the coldness" of that water. Seems to me, it would be a win, win - the data center would get free cooling for their servers, while at the same time it would be able to mitigate the coldness of that water. And the bonus is that co-located with a hydro dam, there is little chance that you'd lose power to the data center - utilities are good at making sure all their plants have good links to the grid... so you've killed something like 3 or 4 birds with one stone.
I have to say that as an American, I'm amused by the European bias with regard to the name "Football"... While I agree that the "world" plays soccer (American for "football"), the notion that it is the ONLY game that should be called football is ludicrous. The only reason the "world" plays "football" is because you busy Europeans seeded the "world" with colonies, so they call it the same thing you do. OTOH, Americans are not the only ones who have a different game called "football"... Canadians have a very similar version to American football, and while the differences are greater, Australian Rules Football is also another variant... I have not, as yet, read the disparaging remarks about either of those "football" sports. Perhaps the Wikipedia entry on the word football would be useful to you English speaking Europeans... And don't even get me started on the whole ZEE verses ZED controversy...
"The word "football", when used in reference to a specific game can mean any one of those described above. Because of this, much friendly controversy has occurred over the term football, primarily because it is used in different ways in different parts of the English-speaking world. Most often, the word "football" is used to refer to the code of football that is considered dominant within a particular region. So, effectively, what the word "football" means usually depends on where one says it."
I, too, liked the original series, and the re-imagined one. I even liked the ending. Prevailing wisdom says this means I have no taste...
And I agree that they are essentially the same premise done under two different world views. The original was the classic hero odyssey, politically right wing ("Sometimes the opposite of war is not peace, the opposite of war is slavery"), family values type of fare - space opera and simple at its roots. The re-imagined series was exactly the opposite - there were no clear heroes, or at least likable ones, politically left wing or at least humanist in nature, and examined the question of what it was like to be human. At times during the series, I was rooting for the Cylons. Human nature at its worst is explored, and human nature at its best has little representation.
So trying to do something in between is the equivalent of trying to have your cake and eat it too. It will be monumental and frankly Larson is not up to it. If he is really producing (instead of pseudo-advising like he did in the re-imagined series), it will end up like the original. And even if he did manage to pull it off, you'd find an even smaller minority than you and me who like it. In short, I'm not sure the in between option is possible, and even if it is, it won't be popular.
You can argue about marketshare or Unix core or whatever, but it's true - Macs *are* more reliable and *do* have much less of a problem with viruses and such. Who cares why?
You will care about why when the market share numbers change. If MACS were 90% of the market, they'd be the ones with the botnets running on them, and the Windows machines would look just like Macs do to you. And it doesn't need to get to 90% for it to be that way. As the Mac marketshare continues to climb - and it will - you'll find that botmakers will target the Mac platform. They'll find holes. And they'll start to get infected. It is a function not of the OS, but a function of WHO is running them. Historically, the uneducated, uncaring masses were the home user running Windows. The botnets are written for THEM. When the uneducated, uncaring masses are running Macs, the botnets will be written for them too. Sure, you can buy some time by going the Mac route today. You'll be helping make Macs get on the bad guys radar screen, and will hasten the botnet coming soon to a computer near you!
When my dad was in the Army Air Corp in WWII, his training group was almost done and were getting ready to fly their B-17's across the ocean.
There was a hitch though...
Seems that no one had arranged for their firearms training. They had to complete that before they could ship out. So they were all loaded onto trucks and brought to a deserted part of the Jersey shore (they were stationed in Atlantic City at that point - the hotels had all been converted to barracks)
They were each given a rifle, and they had to shoot three rounds. They told them to shoot at the ocean. Training completed, they flew off for Bangor, Me, and then made the perilous trek across the Atlantic (Halifax, Goose Bay Labrador, Iceland, etc.)
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... it should have continued thusly:
But can Apple be blamed for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals? For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole App Store system? And if the whole App Store system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our computing institutions in general? I put it to you - isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
I set up Windows Media Center on Vista and I like the way it works. It's pretty simple to use and set up. I bought a 2 tuner card for it so I can record 2 shows simultaneously. Even more useful is the integration with Amazon UnBox and Video On Demand. It just works. Makes trips to the video store extraneous. I haven't tried Netflix as I want simple on demand outside of my cable box. This machine is set up in the living room, and is hooked up to a 37 inch panel. I bought the overpriced remote for Media Center and that works well too (although the kids keep losing it) Overall, I'm happy with the quality, and plan on upgrading to Windows 7 at some point, but really don't have a need as it simply works well now.
Now, cue the MS Haters and mod me down. I know, I know... I'm stupid and don't know what I'm talking about.
I work with AS400 and iSeries machines (and I accept your collective condolences). When I first got trained on them, the teachers told us that OS400 has never been hacked. Not having any real data to confront them, I just let it pass. When we covered the section about user ids and passwords, I found out that 400's force you to disable a user id and password after a certain, finite number of logon attempts. This was by design. All user ids, including system administrator ids had to have some number (I forget how high you can set it) of illegal attempts before the id is locked out. (Usually this is set to 3) They explained, smugly, that this was to keep out intruders.
We further learned that user id's could not be set to more than 10 characters. So I raised my hand and asked what happened if all the user accounts got disabled. They said that IBM would have to back door their way in to unlock a system administrator account, and from that account, others could be reset. (This would be BAD and time consuming, so it was good practice to keep a few SYSADMIN accounts around just in case) I asked if they had ever heard of a denial of service attack. Of course they said. So I asked the obvious question, "What if someone wrote a script to log on to every 10 digit user account 3 times with a blank password?" The reply was "Why would anyone do THAT?"
I pointed out that while I couldn't "hack" their system by their definitions, I could sure as heck turn it into a boat anchor, and do it remotely if it was hooked to the Internet... "Yes, but you can't HACK it was the reply..."
So lets see... leaving aside for the moment blood borne illness issues, right now we'd have to grow the "artificial" meat using animal fetus blood... and where will we get all that animal fetus blood? Perhaps we can just raise animal fetuses? And how will the "synthetic" solution be made? From "synthetic" fetuses? Turtles all the way down, I think.
I can't. But what I can do is speculate on it based on the history of this civilization. We've had rocks fall from the sky regularly and cause huge die-offs. Super volcanos erupt regularly and cause extinction level events - the Yellowstone caldera is an excellent example and is overdue for a massive eruption. The Toba event brought the human species down to perhaps 10,000 mating pairs of humans. We've had numerous close calls with nuclear weapons including the Cuban Missile Crisis, and one where the Soviets came dangerously close to launching their weapons based on faulty early warning data.
Now it's your turn. Name a science experiment that nearly terminated human life on Earth.
It is FAR more likely that if your theory is true, these ancient dead civilizations killed themselves off via the use of WMDs or through some other environmental catastrophe, whether caused by nature or their own stupidity. The likelihood that a scientist makes a mistake in an experiment and wipes out their whole civilization would be far down the list of possible causes of dead civilizations...
I bought a Droid on Friday morning when it came out online. I received it at lunch on Monday, and activated. Upon activation, they made me agree to the 2 year contract re-up, and a $175 early termination fee...
Is there no other option than using the eSlate machine? What if I'm blind. What if I have no limbs? There must be some sort of alternative. OTOH, I'd be curious to know how they USED to vote... was it paper ballot before? Here in the northeast, we had voting lever machines with mechanical tabulation... would he have refused to use that form of mechanical computer? We now use paper ballots but they are scanned by a computer. Would he refuse that as well? And at some point, the votes end up on a computer... Just how opposed is he here?
Crackpot here... Your premise is absolutely wrong - we will NEVER run out of oil. It simply won't happen. If you dare read on, I'll explain why...
There is this thing called supply and demand. In general, as supply falls, the price goes up and demand goes down. This has been demonstrated to be true time and time again.
Now, as the total world oil supply falls, the price will rise and demand will fall. Taking it to extremes, you'll find that when oil gets to $1000 or $10,000 per barrel, we won't be burning it anymore. We'll be putting it in a museum, or wearing it for perfume or some other purpose. Maybe we'll make it a crime to sell it like we do with whale oil today. A guy recently tried to sell it for $40 per ounce (which would be $158,000 per barrel)
But at the end of the day, we'll NEVER run out of oil. We'll simply replace it when it gets too expensive.
Here's my new email sig...
"Copyright 2009, All Rights Reserved - NOTICE: This email has been digitally encrypted with the Double ROT13 encryption algorithm. Any unauthorized access is a violation of the DMCA and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law"
It is interesting that they tagged it as BS and invalidated the experiment by using the single photon results... but these "major physicist" all disagree as to exactly WHY it's invalided... some say that there is no which-way information, others say there is but that it fails for other reasons... I don't really understand all the implications of the experiment, but I found his approach novel and insightful, and the stir it caused very amusing. And I still leave room for the possibility that Copenhagen may in fact be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time that "settled science" has been turned upside down.
I wish I had mod points and that the parent wasn't already at +5... Wow. Just Wow.
This is SO true... I used to play Wolf and then Doom and then Duke Nukem at work at lunch... We'd have 6-8 guys playing on a server and I got pretty good at it. The ability to strafe sideways while aiming precisely with the mouse was a huge plus... Eventually I sold out and moved up to management and couldn't play anymore.
I gave up the FPS games after that until recently. We now have an Xbox 360 and play a lot of 4 player CoD. I suck. And it's because of the controller. There just isn't enough precision in the joysticks on the controller and no way to customize them.
Some will say that I just suck and it isn't really the controller. But I wanted to find out. I have about 4-5 PC's in my house and decided to installed the freeware Wolf game. Graphics are clearly inferior to the CoD game on the Xbox. But I had my trusty keyboard and mouse available to me again. So we all started playing it when the Xbox was gone. ( we were borrowing it at the time). I rocked. Nobody could beat me. The same people that fragged me to no end on CoD were just meat to me.
' Maybe I'm just controller ethnocentristic. And maybe my opponents are too. But I'll take a mouse and keyboard any day over the Xbox controller.
Not true... not true at all. I play blackjack about once a month. When I do, I bring my "basic strategy" card with me. Mostly I don't need it anymore, but it will tell you what you should do to maximize your odds for any given dealer card in combination with your present hand. IF you follow the card exactly and every time, you get to that magic 1% house advantage.
However, if they changed the rules and set them up with a 1% player advantage, I'm still convinced that the house would win. Someone like me would be able to beat them over time. And there would be others like me. At a $10 table, they would lose, on average, 10 cents per hand. If you could play 60 hands an hour, they'd be paying me $6.00 an hour to play...
They'd still make money though, because of the people sitting next to me. I've seen amazing things. I've seen the "don't take a card if it can break your hand" people. They won't take a card when the dealer has a 10 showing, and they have 12. Even though it is roughly 2:1 against them breaking, they won't take that card. I've also seen the "double my 12" hand. Ask them if they're sure? Sure they're sure! Good judgment is swimming upstream against the whiskey. Then there's the guy who watches for a while, puts $20 on the table, bets it on one hand, loses, and then walks away. No law of large numbers for him! Frankly, my guess is that the average take at the blackjack table is nothing like 1% - it's closer to 5-10% because of insane play by stupid people.
Mod Parent Up. I'm running the Win 7 beta 64 bit. Rock solid. Right now have 4 gig of ram. All of it used by the OS. Paging never happens. Granted that I haven't spun it up much lately, but if I do see swapping, I'll spring for the additional 8 gig of ram for a total of 12. I'm pretty sure that XP, even the 64 bit version, would choke on that basis against Win 7...
You should read TFA... it's long but really insightful. To your point above, the article points out that UAVs can score hits whenever they want, which means they can also WAIT to score hits. So if the bad guy you've been watching for the last week is now a target, you don't have to drop the bomb on him when he's walking around with women and children. You can wait until he's alone, or when they've left to drop the bomb on him...
Also, the article described an incident where a guy fires off some mortar rounds, then picks up the mortar and throws it in his trunk and leisurely drives away. The drone followed him and hit him when he was far away from any collateral damage (driving by a river in this case). What is interesting is that the drone continued to watch as another car pulled up, people got out, took the mortar out of his trunk and threw it in the river. Now the insurgent we just killed is seen as a civilian...
This would have been better:
"The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it."
I've often thought that a good place for a data center would be adjacent to a hydro-electric plant. Hydro has it's disadvantages as an electrical generation source, but that ship has sailed so to speak (fish ladders, upstream and downstream shore effects). Given that we have them, we could use data centers to mitigate one of the existing environmental problems of hydro dams, namely cold water pollution.
One of the effects of a hydro dam is that it releases very cold water downstream, much colder than the water would be if the dam were not there. Case in point is a trip I took with Scouts a few years ago. After portaging our canoes, we require everyone to wash with a grease cutting soap to mitigate the effects of any poison ivy we may have tromped through. Not a problem, as it is generally fun to jump into the fast moving water that is released at the base of a dam. The only problem is that the water is COLD. It comes from the bottom of the reservoir, so it is naturally colder than the water flowing normally. As an aside, we had some scouts from Bermuda with us, and when the first one jumped in, he came up barely able to breath because the water was so cold. I don't think he'd ever felt water that cold!
Anyway, it seems to me that the water being released could be warmed before being discharged if there was a data center that could "harness the coldness" of that water. Seems to me, it would be a win, win - the data center would get free cooling for their servers, while at the same time it would be able to mitigate the coldness of that water. And the bonus is that co-located with a hydro dam, there is little chance that you'd lose power to the data center - utilities are good at making sure all their plants have good links to the grid... so you've killed something like 3 or 4 birds with one stone.
... and the cardboard box came in metal shipping crate.
They did. It's called "Duct Tape"
I have to say that as an American, I'm amused by the European bias with regard to the name "Football"... While I agree that the "world" plays soccer (American for "football"), the notion that it is the ONLY game that should be called football is ludicrous. The only reason the "world" plays "football" is because you busy Europeans seeded the "world" with colonies, so they call it the same thing you do. OTOH, Americans are not the only ones who have a different game called "football"... Canadians have a very similar version to American football, and while the differences are greater, Australian Rules Football is also another variant... I have not, as yet, read the disparaging remarks about either of those "football" sports. Perhaps the Wikipedia entry on the word football would be useful to you English speaking Europeans... And don't even get me started on the whole ZEE verses ZED controversy...
"The word "football", when used in reference to a specific game can mean any one of those described above. Because of this, much friendly controversy has occurred over the term football, primarily because it is used in different ways in different parts of the English-speaking world. Most often, the word "football" is used to refer to the code of football that is considered dominant within a particular region. So, effectively, what the word "football" means usually depends on where one says it."
Ka is a circle.
I, too, liked the original series, and the re-imagined one. I even liked the ending. Prevailing wisdom says this means I have no taste...
And I agree that they are essentially the same premise done under two different world views. The original was the classic hero odyssey, politically right wing ("Sometimes the opposite of war is not peace, the opposite of war is slavery"), family values type of fare - space opera and simple at its roots. The re-imagined series was exactly the opposite - there were no clear heroes, or at least likable ones, politically left wing or at least humanist in nature, and examined the question of what it was like to be human. At times during the series, I was rooting for the Cylons. Human nature at its worst is explored, and human nature at its best has little representation.
So trying to do something in between is the equivalent of trying to have your cake and eat it too. It will be monumental and frankly Larson is not up to it. If he is really producing (instead of pseudo-advising like he did in the re-imagined series), it will end up like the original. And even if he did manage to pull it off, you'd find an even smaller minority than you and me who like it. In short, I'm not sure the in between option is possible, and even if it is, it won't be popular.
You can argue about marketshare or Unix core or whatever, but it's true - Macs *are* more reliable and *do* have much less of a problem with viruses and such. Who cares why?
You will care about why when the market share numbers change. If MACS were 90% of the market, they'd be the ones with the botnets running on them, and the Windows machines would look just like Macs do to you. And it doesn't need to get to 90% for it to be that way. As the Mac marketshare continues to climb - and it will - you'll find that botmakers will target the Mac platform. They'll find holes. And they'll start to get infected. It is a function not of the OS, but a function of WHO is running them. Historically, the uneducated, uncaring masses were the home user running Windows. The botnets are written for THEM. When the uneducated, uncaring masses are running Macs, the botnets will be written for them too. Sure, you can buy some time by going the Mac route today. You'll be helping make Macs get on the bad guys radar screen, and will hasten the botnet coming soon to a computer near you!
When my dad was in the Army Air Corp in WWII, his training group was almost done and were getting ready to fly their B-17's across the ocean. There was a hitch though...
Seems that no one had arranged for their firearms training. They had to complete that before they could ship out. So they were all loaded onto trucks and brought to a deserted part of the Jersey shore (they were stationed in Atlantic City at that point - the hotels had all been converted to barracks)
They were each given a rifle, and they had to shoot three rounds. They told them to shoot at the ocean. Training completed, they flew off for Bangor, Me, and then made the perilous trek across the Atlantic (Halifax, Goose Bay Labrador, Iceland, etc.)