The problem is the Libs' attempt to drum up a scandal about him being 'caught' in a strip club years back. That got into the national consciousness as "Rudd's an everyday bloke like us" and made us think he might have a clue. Now we find out he's a flippin' wingnut but it's too late.
The economy isn't something you can dump on him, though. Australia's just one of a line of drunken first-year students stumbling arm in arm down the economic road of life singing slurry songs. The U.S. tripped up and is now puking in the bushes but we didn't manage to let them go fast enough and now we're on the verge of falling over ourselves.
Cash stimulus packages are working (or at least helping) - they trick people into spending instead of saving, which means that local businesses still have an income and people keep their jobs. If everyone starts trying to save money at once, then local businesses' revenues drop like a stone and *everyone's* job is at risk. It's a downward spiral that causes a depression.
Um, we're a democratic republic, somewhat similar to your own country. We have no way of forcibly blocking legislation like this until the next election, excepting widespread civil disobedience or an outright coup.
They need to weight individual MPs votes by their local approval rating. That would give us a direct way to affect proceedings. As it is, the whole system's a farce. At least with a king, if he gets bad enough you can shoot him and install another one without having to wait until next election.
So just how WOULD you find someone who uploaded a small text file to a large international web site? I mean assuming that that person took the usual precaution of uploading it in some busy internet café while being cautious not to draw attention to themselves or get caught on any CCTVs. This is assuming that we're dealing with the AFP and not some Gestapo-esque regime who would simply incarcerate everyone who'd used that net cafe on that day.
The main costs in solar array manufacturing are manpower, raw structural materials, and the solar cells. Remember that the prices for single solar cells are fairly constant, given that they're mass produced already. Same for the structural materials. That leaves (Cells + Materials) on the hobbyist's side and (Cells + Materials + Labour) on the mass production side. It's not surprising that a hobbyist can construct a panel for a competitive price if he doesn't count his time as a cost.
True, but if there's a sizable performance boost to be had by moving the bounds a little, then it's a fair tradeoff. Responsibility has been steadily moving away from the CPU (and OS) anyway, out to the peripherals as computers become more decentralised and peripherals become more autonomous. How is delegating write caching to the drive any worse than delegating video decryption to the video card or network packet buffering to the Ethernet hardware?
The big fucking deal is that when your power goes out / PHB trips over the cable / infant daughter presses the reset button, within a minute or few of point (4), it's already truncated 'myconfig' in preparation of the new data being written, but the new data is still in the write queue and is lost when the power goes off. So myconfig.new is deleted, myconfig is truncated, and you, my anonymous friend, are screwed.
This was one of the first real-world uses that I saw of ultracapacitors. An ultracap can store just enough power to get the buffer written and the disk parked before it shuts down. Of course, your solution works pretty well too, with a lithium button cell probably able to keep the ram refreshed for at least a day or two.
I can just see it now. Slashdot user 'clem' is reading a particularly unfunny comment. As a sneer of disdain crosses his face, something moves in the gloom behind him, dimly lit by monitor glow. With a sudden lurch, interkin3tic crosses the distance to clem's chair. Clem barely has time to look up in horror before internik3tic shouts "RAT PR0N FTW!" and punches him in the face.
+1, Informative. The King of Thailand is more of, I dunno, a referee in the gaelic football scrum that is the government.
He's also their primary symbol of national pride, though. Insulting him while you're in Thailand is similar to, say, pissing on a U.S. flag then setting fire to it while you're in Texas.
It's cute how you assume that all Muslims are a single group.
It's cute how you skipped the entire first part of my post where I explain that I don't.
Intolerant in a kind of "we're not that keen on Western values steamrollering over centuries of culture because it doesn't quite fit in with their World Police ethic"? Yeah, how disgusting of them
(Replying to the AC above to reduce spam) Yeah, centuries of stoning people to death for things like "not wanting to be Muslim any more". Centuries of campaigning to combine church and state so they can impose Sharia law. That the culture you're talking about?
What's a 'colored folks'? My friends range from red with brown spots to pink with red spots to light brown to very dark brown to very pale pink. Which of them are 'coloured'? None of them seem unduly 'uppity'. I'm confused.
It's entirely possible that this is, in fact, what I was talking about.:P I didn't dig into the source to see if it was actually beer or Facebook. Um, I mean Google or Facebook. I'm waiting for my wife to come back with my beer. Life is good!;)
From my media-driven viewpoint, and as far as such groups can be generalised, Muslims are the first to jump on the "religious tolerance" bandwagon, which is odd for such an uncompromisingly intolerant religion.
I think the internet should be free, but seriously, how much worse off would we be if we didn't have Goatse.cx [goatse.cx], TubGirl [tubgirl.com] and other shock sites?
I think the internet should be free, but seriously, how much worse off would we be if we didn't have you?
(This isn't a personal attack, I'm just trying to point out that one man's lols is another man's wtf, so to speak.)
But, I'll throw this final monkey wrench in the whole thing: say we did create a breakthrough tech that resulted in oil losing its price advantage, so much that within 5-10 years all gasoline refining could stop and the world could survive on bio-diesel and ethanol, all at cheaper prices than oil allowed - what do you think that would do to the Middle-east?
Then the primary way to get spodloads of money would be "start a successful business, or get lucky/skillful investing on the stock market", instead of being "just happen to have half the world's oil reserves under your ancestral homeland". At least that way people would generally require some degree of rational thought to get stupidly rich. Without their current oil-money-backed funding, militant extremists would have a much harder time forming cells and carrying out attacks.
As for the algae, I concur. Grey-goo scenarios with nanomachine always make me laugh because our current biosphere is the result of a 'green goo' scenario already. I'd be surprised if it were possible to build nanomachines that substantially outperformed existing biological organisms.
Troll? It's just a particularly tortuous Slashdot analogy. You see, the Yoda doll is the new internet blacklist, the grease is alleged child porn (allows you to accept the doll more easily), and 'you' represent the Australian public. The improbability of the whole process neatly mirrors the f**king impossibility of this scheme ever working in the real world.
I concur it was rather obvious but still, it could at least get an 'informative'.
Actually, what the GPP is referring to is that when you create a Facebook account, it allows you to enter your email password for a few of the major webmail providers (GMail, Hotmail, can't remember the others), trawls through your contact list and/or inbox, and gives you a list of people you've contacted via email who also have facebook accounts. It's a convenient (albeit scary from the security PoV) way to populate your friend list for a new account.
Thanks, but I understand how ABS works. Modern electronic stability control has advantages in terms of fine-grained control over the car, agreed. It'd be nice if that control was actually passed on to the driver, but that's another rant.
It's not "a simple fact" that you always slow down faster if ABS engages. On sealed surfaces, yes, you stop faster with ABS on than with wheels locked, but on gravel (or snow, I imagine) you actually stop faster by locking up. As I said above, I'd probably do my daily driving with ABS on, but there needs to be an off button.
As for what I'd achieve (assuming I'm on a sealed road) - there's a variety of fun manoeuvres that require either locked tyres or losing traction, and they're easier to perform without do-gooderly electronics trying to "fix your mistakes". You don't automatically lose control if one of your wheels locks up, and as for reaction time, if you know what you're doing it's a matter of anticipation rather than reaction.
As for ABS / stability control in motorsports, the million dollar systems you get in Formula 1 will outdo any human driver. Then again, the sequential manual gearbox in an F1 car can change gears in less than 0.1 seconds, compared to the tiptronic slushbox in your standard sedan which takes nearly a second to shift.
I never claimed that I'm "a better driver" than a pro race driver, you beat that straw man up real good there.
Yeah, for my next car (if I get one) I'll probably have to do similar. Don't get me wrong, ABS *is* good when you're driving home 90% asleep and someone pulls out in front of you. It's just bad when, say, you're trying to set up a drift and it 'saves' you, throwing you into a wall in the process.
Sorry, maybe I didn't phrase my post well enough. I meant to say that an pilot who's never flown ANYTHING but a large, mostly automated airliner will not be as good a pilot as one who's spent a lot of time in small planes. I know that airline pilots spend hundreds of hours in a wide range of planes from little Cessnas up to big cargo planes before they get anywhere near getting their commercial airliner license, and I conjecture that it's for precisely this reason.
As my Grandad always said, if you learn to sail a small ship, you'll be able to sail a big ship. If you learn on a big ship, you'll have to learn everything over if you want to sail a small ship. I know there's a bit of a difference between an Airbus and a schooner, but still...
(Plans for the Doran Electric were always for sale in the back of the Popular Science magazines I used to collect when I was a kid, I'm talking 1986 or so, I always wanted to build one:).
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The problem is the Libs' attempt to drum up a scandal about him being 'caught' in a strip club years back. That got into the national consciousness as "Rudd's an everyday bloke like us" and made us think he might have a clue. Now we find out he's a flippin' wingnut but it's too late.
The economy isn't something you can dump on him, though. Australia's just one of a line of drunken first-year students stumbling arm in arm down the economic road of life singing slurry songs. The U.S. tripped up and is now puking in the bushes but we didn't manage to let them go fast enough and now we're on the verge of falling over ourselves.
Cash stimulus packages are working (or at least helping) - they trick people into spending instead of saving, which means that local businesses still have an income and people keep their jobs. If everyone starts trying to save money at once, then local businesses' revenues drop like a stone and *everyone's* job is at risk. It's a downward spiral that causes a depression.
Um, we're a democratic republic, somewhat similar to your own country. We have no way of forcibly blocking legislation like this until the next election, excepting widespread civil disobedience or an outright coup.
They need to weight individual MPs votes by their local approval rating. That would give us a direct way to affect proceedings. As it is, the whole system's a farce. At least with a king, if he gets bad enough you can shoot him and install another one without having to wait until next election.
So just how WOULD you find someone who uploaded a small text file to a large international web site? I mean assuming that that person took the usual precaution of uploading it in some busy internet café while being cautious not to draw attention to themselves or get caught on any CCTVs. This is assuming that we're dealing with the AFP and not some Gestapo-esque regime who would simply incarcerate everyone who'd used that net cafe on that day.
I read your sig but I don't believe it. That's just what THEY want me to believe, anyway!
The main costs in solar array manufacturing are manpower, raw structural materials, and the solar cells. Remember that the prices for single solar cells are fairly constant, given that they're mass produced already. Same for the structural materials. That leaves (Cells + Materials) on the hobbyist's side and (Cells + Materials + Labour) on the mass production side. It's not surprising that a hobbyist can construct a panel for a competitive price if he doesn't count his time as a cost.
True, but if there's a sizable performance boost to be had by moving the bounds a little, then it's a fair tradeoff. Responsibility has been steadily moving away from the CPU (and OS) anyway, out to the peripherals as computers become more decentralised and peripherals become more autonomous. How is delegating write caching to the drive any worse than delegating video decryption to the video card or network packet buffering to the Ethernet hardware?
The big fucking deal is that when your power goes out / PHB trips over the cable / infant daughter presses the reset button, within a minute or few of point (4), it's already truncated 'myconfig' in preparation of the new data being written, but the new data is still in the write queue and is lost when the power goes off. So myconfig.new is deleted, myconfig is truncated, and you, my anonymous friend, are screwed.
This was one of the first real-world uses that I saw of ultracapacitors. An ultracap can store just enough power to get the buffer written and the disk parked before it shuts down. Of course, your solution works pretty well too, with a lithium button cell probably able to keep the ram refreshed for at least a day or two.
Nah, I'm pretty sure that'd make it MORE funny.
I can just see it now. Slashdot user 'clem' is reading a particularly unfunny comment. As a sneer of disdain crosses his face, something moves in the gloom behind him, dimly lit by monitor glow. With a sudden lurch, interkin3tic crosses the distance to clem's chair. Clem barely has time to look up in horror before internik3tic shouts "RAT PR0N FTW!" and punches him in the face.
Verbing weirds language.
+1, Informative. The King of Thailand is more of, I dunno, a referee in the gaelic football scrum that is the government.
He's also their primary symbol of national pride, though. Insulting him while you're in Thailand is similar to, say, pissing on a U.S. flag then setting fire to it while you're in Texas.
It's cute how you assume that all Muslims are a single group.
It's cute how you skipped the entire first part of my post where I explain that I don't.
Intolerant in a kind of "we're not that keen on Western values steamrollering over centuries of culture because it doesn't quite fit in with their World Police ethic"? Yeah, how disgusting of them
(Replying to the AC above to reduce spam)
Yeah, centuries of stoning people to death for things like "not wanting to be Muslim any more". Centuries of campaigning to combine church and state so they can impose Sharia law. That the culture you're talking about?
What's a 'colored folks'? My friends range from red with brown spots to pink with red spots to light brown to very dark brown to very pale pink. Which of them are 'coloured'? None of them seem unduly 'uppity'. I'm confused.
It's entirely possible that this is, in fact, what I was talking about. :P I didn't dig into the source to see if it was actually beer or Facebook. Um, I mean Google or Facebook. I'm waiting for my wife to come back with my beer. Life is good! ;)
mock a Muslim and it's intolerance
From my media-driven viewpoint, and as far as such groups can be generalised, Muslims are the first to jump on the "religious tolerance" bandwagon, which is odd for such an uncompromisingly intolerant religion.
I think the internet should be free, but seriously, how much worse off would we be if we didn't have Goatse.cx [goatse.cx], TubGirl [tubgirl.com] and other shock sites?
I think the internet should be free, but seriously, how much worse off would we be if we didn't have you?
(This isn't a personal attack, I'm just trying to point out that one man's lols is another man's wtf, so to speak.)
But, I'll throw this final monkey wrench in the whole thing: say we did create a breakthrough tech that resulted in oil losing its price advantage, so much that within 5-10 years all gasoline refining could stop and the world could survive on bio-diesel and ethanol, all at cheaper prices than oil allowed - what do you think that would do to the Middle-east?
Then the primary way to get spodloads of money would be "start a successful business, or get lucky/skillful investing on the stock market", instead of being "just happen to have half the world's oil reserves under your ancestral homeland". At least that way people would generally require some degree of rational thought to get stupidly rich. Without their current oil-money-backed funding, militant extremists would have a much harder time forming cells and carrying out attacks.
As for the algae, I concur. Grey-goo scenarios with nanomachine always make me laugh because our current biosphere is the result of a 'green goo' scenario already. I'd be surprised if it were possible to build nanomachines that substantially outperformed existing biological organisms.
Troll? It's just a particularly tortuous Slashdot analogy. You see, the Yoda doll is the new internet blacklist, the grease is alleged child porn (allows you to accept the doll more easily), and 'you' represent the Australian public. The improbability of the whole process neatly mirrors the f**king impossibility of this scheme ever working in the real world.
I concur it was rather obvious but still, it could at least get an 'informative'.
Actually, what the GPP is referring to is that when you create a Facebook account, it allows you to enter your email password for a few of the major webmail providers (GMail, Hotmail, can't remember the others), trawls through your contact list and/or inbox, and gives you a list of people you've contacted via email who also have facebook accounts. It's a convenient (albeit scary from the security PoV) way to populate your friend list for a new account.
Thanks, but I understand how ABS works. Modern electronic stability control has advantages in terms of fine-grained control over the car, agreed. It'd be nice if that control was actually passed on to the driver, but that's another rant.
It's not "a simple fact" that you always slow down faster if ABS engages. On sealed surfaces, yes, you stop faster with ABS on than with wheels locked, but on gravel (or snow, I imagine) you actually stop faster by locking up. As I said above, I'd probably do my daily driving with ABS on, but there needs to be an off button.
As for what I'd achieve (assuming I'm on a sealed road) - there's a variety of fun manoeuvres that require either locked tyres or losing traction, and they're easier to perform without do-gooderly electronics trying to "fix your mistakes". You don't automatically lose control if one of your wheels locks up, and as for reaction time, if you know what you're doing it's a matter of anticipation rather than reaction.
As for ABS / stability control in motorsports, the million dollar systems you get in Formula 1 will outdo any human driver. Then again, the sequential manual gearbox in an F1 car can change gears in less than 0.1 seconds, compared to the tiptronic slushbox in your standard sedan which takes nearly a second to shift.
I never claimed that I'm "a better driver" than a pro race driver, you beat that straw man up real good there.
Yeah, for my next car (if I get one) I'll probably have to do similar. Don't get me wrong, ABS *is* good when you're driving home 90% asleep and someone pulls out in front of you. It's just bad when, say, you're trying to set up a drift and it 'saves' you, throwing you into a wall in the process.
Sorry, maybe I didn't phrase my post well enough. I meant to say that an pilot who's never flown ANYTHING but a large, mostly automated airliner will not be as good a pilot as one who's spent a lot of time in small planes. I know that airline pilots spend hundreds of hours in a wide range of planes from little Cessnas up to big cargo planes before they get anywhere near getting their commercial airliner license, and I conjecture that it's for precisely this reason.
As my Grandad always said, if you learn to sail a small ship, you'll be able to sail a big ship. If you learn on a big ship, you'll have to learn everything over if you want to sail a small ship. I know there's a bit of a difference between an Airbus and a schooner, but still...
...if one of the id developers for doom had gone rouge and blown...
*blush*
Geez, never seen one of those before!
:).
(Plans for the Doran Electric were always for sale in the back of the Popular Science magazines I used to collect when I was a kid, I'm talking 1986 or so, I always wanted to build one
Just wish there were adblock for Chrome and I am switching!
Would this adblock filter out google ads? That would seem... somewhat contrary to their corporate goals.