Exactly! In fact gay marriage is MORE LIKELY to lead to dual-jawed mutant eels than global warming! However, both of these threats to our environment have a sinister common factor - Dihydrogen Monoxide! BAN DHMO!
Reminds me of that joke where the guy's wife complains about him spending so much on beer. He says he'll quit buying beer if she quits spending hundreds on makeup. She counters that the makeup is to make her look beautiful, to which he replies, "But darling! That's what the beer's for!"
Or better yet, add some facial recognition software and have it float nametags over people it recognizes, as if you were in an MMO game. That'd be so awesome. Apart from the massive goggles... cmooon BCI!
Don't you know that the older computer hardware is, the cooler it is? Green screens were the pinnacle of not-geekiness. They were cryptic and obscure enough to be able to do anything, and yet so so computery!;)
As soon as I get home I'm gonna set xterm back to green on black. These new transparent wobbly windows are soooo passe.
My girlfriend always thought it was kinda mean to use lab rats, but after seeing these "heroes"... she's changed her mind slightly to "these little guys are saving lives" They're 'heroes' only in the same sense that Jewish experimental subjects in Nazi Germany* were 'heroes'. You think the poor little buggers are volunteers? Even if they make a full recovery after their ordeal they'll still be killed and dissected to confirm results. There's no escape and no hope for them.
There's arguments on both sides of the animal testing fence, but whichever side you end up on, you can never claim that there's no cost in terms of pain and suffering. Many human lives may be saved, but they're saved by a group of people being evil bastards to another group (human or otherwise) who can't defend themselves. Don't try to romanticize it or gloss over it.
* yes, you heard me, I went there. Damn you, Godwin!
...but decent chips with good wear leveling and high quality construction. Pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't the number of writes to any given cell be independent from any wear leveling? That is, unless you're talking about writes to the device as a whole, at which point the point becomes moot because you can decrease the duty cycle arbitrarily by adding more redundant memory.
As for write cycles possible, while probably not the most authoritative of resources, wiki says:
The endurance of NAND flash is much greater than that of NOR flash (typically 1,000,000 cycles vs. 100,000 cycles). This is because programming and erasure in NOR flash rely on different microscopic processes (hot electron injection and quantum tunneling, respectively), while they are perfectly symmetric in NAND flash (Fowler-Nordheim tunneling). [5] The asymmetric nature of NOR flash programming and erasure increases the rate at which memory cells degrade, over many program/erase cycles.
The superior symmetric programming method of NAND flash has in fact been adopted in many NOR flash designs, so that some modern NOR chips boast endurance comparable to NAND flash. [5] (pp 5-7)
Zero Emission Vehicles have zero tailpipe emissions and are 98% cleaner than the average new model year vehicle. This seems nearly as silly as having "partial ZEVs". If the average new model year vehicle emits non-zero emissions, and a ZEV emits, well, zero, then how can 'zero' be 98% less than 'some'?
IMO the whole catastrophe is an excellent example of what happens when you let people discuss, much worse legislate, things they don't understand.
Nope, it can construct Wraiths, but you need a control tower for cruisers. They come pre-charged by the manufacturer, but once discharged you must wait for your reactors to recharge the supercapacitor banks. Budget cuts, you know.
It shouldn't take long, anyway, since battle cruisers are only about as long as a mid-sized bus. That always bugged me, but not as much as the way that entire missions happened inside command centers that are only slightly larger than said battle cruisers... >.<
You honestly believe that the marketing department didn't come down to the engineering department to suggest this figure?
"Lads, AMD is making 90nm chips right now, so they must be working on 45nm chips! If we can't compete we'll all be out of jobs. Now, can you make 45nm chips? Of course you can't! Will you be able to by the time we have to release them? Excellent!"
(Marketing manager writes down 'action point: leverage 45nm technologies for potential market capitalization'. In the background the lead engineer's head quietly explodes.)
What is it with religion and sex anyway? Religions often work by subverting one of the basic biological drives to provide some incentive to join or practice them. Usually it's done by demonizing the satisfaction of the drive in question, such that the follower is made to permanently feel sinful, and henceforth needs to adhere to the religion in order to reassure themselves that they are not so. Air and water are pretty fundamental and so don't get messed with much. That leaves more 'optional' higher level drives.
In some religions, especially older ones, it's hunger, at least to the point where some part of the diet is regulated by the religion. Most modern religions practice some fasting, for example Lent in Judaic religions. Fasting is an integral part of Hinduism.
Most modern religions have settled on sex. It's a cracker of a drive for manipulating people - for starters, it's something that only starts interesting people at puberty, at which stage it's easy to convince gullible children that their new interest is wrong and sinful. If we're inherently sinful (and humans are inherently sexual, so this is an easy step to push) then that's a powerful and universal way of creating a sense of guilt, which then drives recruitment. Repression of sex leads to the drive being subverted in different directions, for example dedication to the church, or obsessive work habits. That, coupled with the fact that almost invariably there is still some degree of thought about or desire for sex, supplies an ongoing means of control over the adherents of the religion.
"If Atlas can Shrug and Telemachus can Sneeze, why can't Satan Repent?" Because from his point of view, he did nothing wrong. To the best of my knowledge, the way it went down was basically like this:
God: hay gusy look at this
* God creates the earth
God: cool huh
sexyangel321: nice 1
Lucifer: dude wow
Lucifer: gimme a go!
God: no wai, its my trick
* God creates Man
sexyangel321: your awesome god, no 1s better
God: c wot i did thar
Lucifer: sif
* Lucifer has a go at creating stuff
God: wtf
*** Lucifer has been kicked (think ur better than me?)
* God sets mode: +b *!*@lucifer.net
sexyangel321: ur hot wanna cyb0r?
Dunno about you, but I wouldn't worship anyone in that channel, least of all the ops.
No, if X doesn't work, you haven't configured X properly. Don't say the OS is broken...its not. Maybe the distro is;p If X doesn't work, the COMPUTER is broken. And chances of a non-techie (or even a techie with limited Linux CLI experience) fixing a broken Linux install from the command line without knowing exactly what was broken are very, very small.
Your average computer user (and your average Linux user is approaching your average computer user in this sense, it's the price of becoming popular instead of staying a clique of elitist geeks) it doesn't matter if it's X, Gnome, their nVidia drivers, or the anterior dorsal foozwuzzle that's broken, their computar is broke.
Well, for starters, as anyone here could confidently tell you, this thing is unlikely to see the light of day. I have the same Popular Mechanics magazine that an above poster mentioned, and it read very similarly to TFA.
That aside, if by some breakthrough of physics or whatever, flying cars DO become viable - this is an example of a situation where augmented reality has a chance to shine. Imagine sitting in your personal aircraft, in a busy sky, with all the craft around you showing their intended flight paths on your HUD. It'd make great sci-fi viewing, at least... >.>
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Exactly! In fact gay marriage is MORE LIKELY to lead to dual-jawed mutant eels than global warming! However, both of these threats to our environment have a sinister common factor - Dihydrogen Monoxide! BAN DHMO!
Reminds me of that joke where the guy's wife complains about him spending so much on beer. He says he'll quit buying beer if she quits spending hundreds on makeup. She counters that the makeup is to make her look beautiful, to which he replies, "But darling! That's what the beer's for!"
Or better yet, add some facial recognition software and have it float nametags over people it recognizes, as if you were in an MMO game. That'd be so awesome. Apart from the massive goggles... cmooon BCI!
Don't you know that the older computer hardware is, the cooler it is? Green screens were the pinnacle of not-geekiness. They were cryptic and obscure enough to be able to do anything, and yet so so computery! ;)
As soon as I get home I'm gonna set xterm back to green on black. These new transparent wobbly windows are soooo passe.
There's arguments on both sides of the animal testing fence, but whichever side you end up on, you can never claim that there's no cost in terms of pain and suffering. Many human lives may be saved, but they're saved by a group of people being evil bastards to another group (human or otherwise) who can't defend themselves. Don't try to romanticize it or gloss over it.
* yes, you heard me, I went there. Damn you, Godwin!
...but decent chips with good wear leveling and high quality construction. Pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't the number of writes to any given cell be independent from any wear leveling? That is, unless you're talking about writes to the device as a whole, at which point the point becomes moot because you can decrease the duty cycle arbitrarily by adding more redundant memory.As for write cycles possible, while probably not the most authoritative of resources, wiki says: The endurance of NAND flash is much greater than that of NOR flash (typically 1,000,000 cycles vs. 100,000 cycles). This is because programming and erasure in NOR flash rely on different microscopic processes (hot electron injection and quantum tunneling, respectively), while they are perfectly symmetric in NAND flash (Fowler-Nordheim tunneling). [5] The asymmetric nature of NOR flash programming and erasure increases the rate at which memory cells degrade, over many program/erase cycles.
The superior symmetric programming method of NAND flash has in fact been adopted in many NOR flash designs, so that some modern NOR chips boast endurance comparable to NAND flash. [5] (pp 5-7)
So you're saying that the part of the car not consisting of engine and tailpipe produces zero emissions? Genius!!
IMO the whole catastrophe is an excellent example of what happens when you let people discuss, much worse legislate, things they don't understand.
And never forget www.expertsexchange.com :P
That would be par for the course.
This being Slashdot and all.
And 'Linux' is banned to prevent phishing scams where someone pretends to be from Linux.
...are you trying to tell me there AREN'T people that stupid out there? On XBox Live?! O_o
Nope, it can construct Wraiths, but you need a control tower for cruisers. They come pre-charged by the manufacturer, but once discharged you must wait for your reactors to recharge the supercapacitor banks. Budget cuts, you know.
It shouldn't take long, anyway, since battle cruisers are only about as long as a mid-sized bus. That always bugged me, but not as much as the way that entire missions happened inside command centers that are only slightly larger than said battle cruisers... >.<
So that Slashdot regulars can appropriately visualise the distances involved: 60nm = 2.98258172 × 10-10 furlongs.
You honestly believe that the marketing department didn't come down to the engineering department to suggest this figure?
"Lads, AMD is making 90nm chips right now, so they must be working on 45nm chips! If we can't compete we'll all be out of jobs. Now, can you make 45nm chips? Of course you can't! Will you be able to by the time we have to release them? Excellent!"
(Marketing manager writes down 'action point: leverage 45nm technologies for potential market capitalization'. In the background the lead engineer's head quietly explodes.)
You... you couldn't possibly... think he was serious, could you? o_O
:P
It didn't even occur to me until I read your post.
The Walrus and the Carpenter decline your proposal based on an earlier feasibility study on a much smaller scale.
In some religions, especially older ones, it's hunger, at least to the point where some part of the diet is regulated by the religion. Most modern religions practice some fasting, for example Lent in Judaic religions. Fasting is an integral part of Hinduism.
Most modern religions have settled on sex. It's a cracker of a drive for manipulating people - for starters, it's something that only starts interesting people at puberty, at which stage it's easy to convince gullible children that their new interest is wrong and sinful. If we're inherently sinful (and humans are inherently sexual, so this is an easy step to push) then that's a powerful and universal way of creating a sense of guilt, which then drives recruitment. Repression of sex leads to the drive being subverted in different directions, for example dedication to the church, or obsessive work habits. That, coupled with the fact that almost invariably there is still some degree of thought about or desire for sex, supplies an ongoing means of control over the adherents of the religion.
God: hay gusy look at this
* God creates the earth
God: cool huh
sexyangel321: nice 1
Lucifer: dude wow
Lucifer: gimme a go!
God: no wai, its my trick
* God creates Man
sexyangel321: your awesome god, no 1s better
God: c wot i did thar
Lucifer: sif
* Lucifer has a go at creating stuff
God: wtf
*** Lucifer has been kicked (think ur better than me?)
* God sets mode: +b *!*@lucifer.net
sexyangel321: ur hot wanna cyb0r?
Dunno about you, but I wouldn't worship anyone in that channel, least of all the ops.
Soon you'll be able to do it with three CCs of mouse blood and a boiled egg.
African or European?
Oooh, burn! Never... want... to see... evil bat eye... or glowing scorpid blood... again!
Your average computer user (and your average Linux user is approaching your average computer user in this sense, it's the price of becoming popular instead of staying a clique of elitist geeks) it doesn't matter if it's X, Gnome, their nVidia drivers, or the anterior dorsal foozwuzzle that's broken, their computar is broke.
Well, for starters, as anyone here could confidently tell you, this thing is unlikely to see the light of day. I have the same Popular Mechanics magazine that an above poster mentioned, and it read very similarly to TFA.
That aside, if by some breakthrough of physics or whatever, flying cars DO become viable - this is an example of a situation where augmented reality has a chance to shine. Imagine sitting in your personal aircraft, in a busy sky, with all the craft around you showing their intended flight paths on your HUD. It'd make great sci-fi viewing, at least... >.>