It's better if you just search for DDR-2 800 and pick out the ECC compared to the non. They are pretty much the same price, but the ECC is genearlly slower (due to higher latency) than non-ECC. Whether or not that matters to you or not is personal preference. Clearly since manufacturers don't see the need to include ECC in desktop level PCs there is not exactly a public outcry for this RAM.
Honestly I have not seen a RAM-based BSOD in a long, long time. The last time was actually, unfortunately, the first time I booted a new laptop that came with Vista a couple years ago. I'm reasonably certain the OEM screwed something up there, it's highly unlikely that it was a RAM error.
RAM BSODs are very rare, because the RAM is very good. You use ECC in "mission critical" applications, not in video games or the occasional turbotax that you only use once a year.
Seriously. If you're worried about it you should be saving anyway, because there are a whole host of things that can go wrong to cause you to lose your work besides not having ECC RAM in your computer.
My experience has been just the opposite, granted I haven't used Ubuntu for the last major update, but before then the updates would always make doing much else impossible.
Windows updates, however, sit in the background and get data as they can even if it takes three days. It is generally a very low priority task unless you change it.
This is on a low-end laptop that is now a couple years old, so a desktop may not have had a problem with the Ubuntu updates.
Who does one complain to when a backhoe cuts their internet connection? The Human Rights Commission?
Yes.
Seriously though, it's a legal right, not some sort of new human right or "inalienable right" is are enumerated in various constitutions. As soon as a law is penned which says "Soandso must provide X to Y", Y has a new legal right. One such right that is famous in the US is set of Miranda rights. These were derived from the constitution and laws, but none of them were expressly written anywhere. Particularly the "right to an attourney" is a legal right, as if attourneys did not exist there would be no way to fulfill it. Also, you have the right to be told your rights, that is a legal right. It can nullify an entire case if you are not told your rights before you are arrested.
I think it's a little frivolous, but it's no different than the legal right to phone service we have in the US. We still pay a tax on phone services to create the subsidy that guarantees that right. If you have no phone line, call a telephone company and they will have to run one within a certain distance of your home. From there you must pay to have it connected to your home, but it is free up until then.
I mean, does a 100 year old person have as much of a "right" to some organ replacement surgery or expensive cancer drugs as a 6 year old?
You haven't been paying close enough attention to the debate, they cover this. In fact, the sweet spot is 18-34, with coverage shooting up around age 10 and shooting down around 65-70. I'd say under Obama-care the 6 year old would only be doing slightly better than a 100 year old.
And yup, I completely agree with you. Most people who currently don't have health insurance refused the health insurance offered at work, or are illegal immigrants (there are about 12-15 million of those). We are going through all this nonsense for about 10-15 million people. This is overkill.
That's a BS red-herring. Work hard, keep your shit straight, and you'll be able to save up for school. People expect far too much far too soon, and rewarding people for coming from a "disadvantaged" home encourages them to stay "disadvantaged", and to teach their kids how to be "disadvantaged" so they can get free stuff from people who feel sorry for them too. And "disadvantaged" in this case usually means "irresponsible shitheads leaching off the government".
I know from personal experience, there is a section of my family that is "disadvantaged" - the sad thing is my aunt has finally (after 30 some odd years) realized she has doomed her two sweet grandkids to the same life she doomed her own kids to, and she is nearly powerless to stop the cycle.
Wake up people, supporting education with grants and scholorships and low intrest loans is wonderful, but this attitude that the "poor and downtrodden" need constant support to do anything in life just keeps them poor and downtrodden! They must have the right to try, the right to succeed, and the right to fail. None of those three should ever be forced uppon them, and success should never be mandated. Otherwise they will forever live in mediocrity at the expense of society as a whole.
There are a number of small villages in Alaska that can barely get Dialup, and nothing else is available.
I'm sure there are also some small country areas in the continental US that are so spread out the telecoms and cable co.'s have not seen any reason to string broadband infrastructure to every house.
I remember when the the Analog to Digital TV changeover was happening a lot of rural people were upset because they did not have access to any form of cable TV, and digital didn't bounce as well as analog which meant they'd loose all TV access, or some such. Anyway, if they can't get cable, they probably can't get broadband internet either.
Here I get 3mb cable with a 20gb monthly cap for $70 per month, and it's the fastest and highest value I can get for straight internet.
I could get 10mb with no cap from the same company for about $80 per month, but I would also have to buy a cable and phone service package. The total would be around $200 or so per month.
You've got it easy in NYC, and I know there are still some places in my state where you can't get better than dialup speeds, and if you can they are outrageous.
That's not that hard, really. It takes some care but all you really need to do is separate the peal from the orange before removing the peal from around the orange. This can be done by creating an incision down one side of the orange and working a "bubble" of peal around the orange. Once you've separated the peal, simply slide the orange through the cut you made down the side and there you go.
Now, the hard part is flattening it out without tearing it.
I'm sure you realize, however, when a person leaves a fingerprint you aren't seing the entire surface of the finger, stretched and flattened on a 2d surface. What you are seeing is the outermost contact points of a slightly squishy 3d object. That shouldn't be too hard to replicate, and there certainly isn't a whole lot of cracking or stretching involved.
Take a heavy ruber ball and fill it 4/5 with water and see how much it stretches - it's negligible. Squishing the heavy rubber ball is about how your fingers react, and shouldn't be all that hard to replicate.
I worked for the DoD for about a year just a few years ago and was never fingerprinted. I was a civilian employee too, not a contractor. I did get a thorough background check though. Funny, I got one for my current private job too.
Anyway, I think your fingerprinting was a state mandate, not a federal one.
I (and the many generations after me) get something useful in return.
That's the real caveat, isn't it? Things like Social Security were great for a few generations, but before long you'll have to be above the average lifespan to collect because it is going broke. Never mind the fact that that single program alone accounts for about 1/3 of the US deficit. Think about that for a minute - you have to be 65 to collect, and the average life span is in the upper 70's. It's 1/3 of our national debt, yet it will only cover a little more than 1/10th the average citizen's lifetime. It's benefiting the current generation at the expense of the next, and it's exactly the sort of thing people are afraid of with any large government spending project.
The real insidious thing is the hundreds, if not thousands of $32 million projects that fail, and we end up paying for with nothing to show for it. They each individually are too small to take much notice (even $32 has me going "meh" as far as size of project to be worried about), but taken together they represent massive waste.
As far as this particular project, the hardware costs are probably not more than $1 million, it will probably cost $5-10 million to design the system, which is justifiable, and then the other $21 million are all administrative costs. Then the project will over-run when the people running the project change their minds halfway through (and then again change their minds back, or just to something completely different), causing the engineering costs to skyrocket, which in turn causes the administrative costs to skyrocket. I wouldn't be all that surprised if this $32 million project ends up costing $70 million. It happens all the time.
I did not realize 3d modeling was invented on and solely applies to 3d computer modeling software. Maybe all those clay and wooden models that have been around for hundreds of years are just 2d with a wierd "extra" dimension to them? I dunno.
Oh wait...
You do realize people still make 3d models of products and such, right? As good as computers are, it's hard to get a good feel for a 3d object when viewing it in 2d space. Products are often -designed- on computers, but they still make real-world mockups and models for a lot of things.
Now, I have no way of knowing if the GP was talking about 3d computer modeling, and if he was I understand even less how the post would fit with the subject (what does the computing power for 3d computer modeling have to do with 3d glasses?), but in either case you're wrong. Even in 3d computer modeling the only thing that makes it not "3d" is that it is represented in 2d via the computer screen - the data is often plugged into a machine that creates a 3d object, meaning all 3 dimensions really were there. In other words, you are working on 3d object, you just have limited vision into the 3d object you are working on. 3d modeling is modeling in 3 dimensions, else it isn't 3d modeling.
That, of course, is utter bullshit. If you are a good manager, and your team knows they can voice their disagreements without fear of being "silenced", you will have a team that universally respects you. You have to actually be a good manager that actually listens to the oposing viewpoints before making a decision, but universal respect is certainly within reach of any manager.
I came in to my current position as a manager like this was leaving. In fact he was being promoted by force - they were trying to transition him to upper management and he rejected the position many times, but his options became move up or work for someone else. Anyway, I've been here about eight months and I have yet to hear a negative comment about him. I've heard disagreements about decisions he made, but as far as I can tell he is universally respected and widely considered one of the best bosses my department has ever had, and we have people who have been working in this department for 30+ years. His replacement is pretty good too.
It really helps, I think, that these guys were moved up from within the ranks of the department, and so they know what the hell they are talking about technically. It sucks trying to explain things to a manager that doesn't have a clue how basic stuff works. They have to make big decisions and sometimes they just don't know enough to make the best choice. Unfortunately this is often because they place too much trust in the advice of a person of moderate importance trying to hang onto and expand their power and influence.
1.) Yes, there are three distinct legal jurisdictions with their own local laws. 2.) These three nations were united a long time ago into what is known as, oddly enough, the United Kingdom, UK for short. 3.) This United Kingdom has a parliament consisting of representatives from all three of the former nations. 4.) This Parliament enacts laws that apply to all three former nations, and must be adjudicated in each individual former nation.
This means that when an Act is written in Parliament, each legal system must apply it according to their own judicial conventions.
No, there is not an overarching legal system that applies to all three, but Parliamentary acts do apply to all three. That includes the Human Rights Act, which ties into the EU law system and creates a weak constitution of sorts, guaranteeing certain rights.
That's so true, have you ever tried to herd boxen? More stubborn than mules I tell you. If they get a mind to they will literally sit in one place for weeks without going anywhere, no matter how hard you poke and prod them.
It's an archaic usage, only slightly more common than using "ill" for "poorly". It's legit, but it isn't exactly used in common language outside of phrases like "loose the hounds" or "loose the dogs of war" and such. It seems to be used a lot with dogs, now that I think about it. GP's own example involved dogs.
It's also worth noting that, nowhere in your sig did you say loose was only a verb, just that the word that means the opposite of tight has two O's, not one.
As long as there are activities that are illegal but harm no one but the person doing it (an often harm no one at all), you're not really free.
Societies generally consider such activities as harmful to society as a whole, and therefore need to be inhibitted. If you think about it for a minute you should be able to recognize that while a single individual harming themself does no harm to others, large numbers of individuals harming themselves will cause significant damage to society as a whole. Taken individually it is no big deal, but taken as a whole it harms all of society.
I'll illustrate this with a fairly absurd example: Suppose people start poking their eyes out because, for some reason, it's a lot of fun. The individual isn't harming anybody else, he is only harming himself, but what if 20 million people did it? Now those 20 million people need to be cared for, and create a significant burden on society as a whole.
That's the basic justification for making personal choices illegal, and it's a valid one. The real question, is why is one societal ill simply regulated (like tobacco and alcohol), while others (recreational drugs) are completely illegal. They are generally pretty close in their effects, particularly compared to alcohol.
I don't think there really is a free country in the entire world, but I may be showing my ignorance here.
A perfectly free country is impossible. There is a point at which any more freedom to the individual reduces the freedom of those individuals around him. For example, in a truly free country it would not be illegal to steal someone else's car. However you have just taken away the right of that person to drive his own car. In truth a free country is simply a country that has the people as the ultimate authority, and generally strives to provide the maximum freedom possible to each individual citizen. The only way to be 100% free is to live off in the woods by yourself. If nobody knows you are there, nobody can restrict your freedom. It would kinda suck though.
It's funny to note that the US is moving away from individual freedom while China is moving towards it. What a world, huh?
There are a few companies that make super-conducting cable systems, saying they are expensive is a bit of an understatement.
The parent to your post apparently doesn't know that metal wires are possible because they are ductile. Copper is extremely ductile and very conductive, and relatively cheap. Hence it is the most popular conductor for electrical wiring. The whole lot of you (GP on down) apparently don't realize that there may be other ways to make cables out of stiff materials than drawing them out into a long strand, as in copper wire.
Did you even read any of those? Not a single article you linked to mentions a single SC cable that is actually in place. Every single one of them were "plans for the future" based on new technology.
That's not to say it isn't possible, it certainly is, but it is extremely expensive. These are very exotic materials and there are only a few applications where the cost to chill the cables is less than the waste of copper.
What the parent was referring to was the fact that ceramic is not ductile, and therefor assumed that cables were out of the question - traditional drawn-wire cables certainly are. The popular technique seems to be a ceramic tape instead of drawn cable.
A 250k super-conductor, provided the techniques for creating it are not prohibitively expensive, would open up a whole new world of applications. The only thing left is to pump it up another 150 degrees and we'll have room-temp superconducting. That will make a whole host of things possible.
Just remember to de-amplify the flux-capacitor. Bad things happen when you don't.
I don't know why that goo in the middle of solder needs a capacitor, but it does! And it must be de-amplified! The positronic matrix will de-stabilize if you're not careful anyway, best not to add more risk than necessary.
That has to be the worst show on television. What dumbshit in the Miami PD is letting the goddamn forensics lead run all their investigations? Why the hell is forensics interviewing suspects? Why are they arresting the bad guys? That isn't their job, and in the "real world" I imagine any case where that happened would be laughed out of court.
I've never had a negative opinion of the actor portraying a character, but there is no way you can play a pompous, self-rightous ass that well without actually being one in real life.
And I was able to suspend disbelief enough to quite thoroughly enjoy the original CSI, which shared a few of CSI: Miami's flaws to a lesser degree. Man, just thinking about how much I hate CSI: Miami gets me worked up, lol.
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It's better if you just search for DDR-2 800 and pick out the ECC compared to the non. They are pretty much the same price, but the ECC is genearlly slower (due to higher latency) than non-ECC. Whether or not that matters to you or not is personal preference. Clearly since manufacturers don't see the need to include ECC in desktop level PCs there is not exactly a public outcry for this RAM.
Honestly I have not seen a RAM-based BSOD in a long, long time. The last time was actually, unfortunately, the first time I booted a new laptop that came with Vista a couple years ago. I'm reasonably certain the OEM screwed something up there, it's highly unlikely that it was a RAM error.
RAM BSODs are very rare, because the RAM is very good. You use ECC in "mission critical" applications, not in video games or the occasional turbotax that you only use once a year.
Seriously. If you're worried about it you should be saving anyway, because there are a whole host of things that can go wrong to cause you to lose your work besides not having ECC RAM in your computer.
My experience has been just the opposite, granted I haven't used Ubuntu for the last major update, but before then the updates would always make doing much else impossible.
Windows updates, however, sit in the background and get data as they can even if it takes three days. It is generally a very low priority task unless you change it.
This is on a low-end laptop that is now a couple years old, so a desktop may not have had a problem with the Ubuntu updates.
Who does one complain to when a backhoe cuts their internet connection? The Human Rights Commission?
Yes.
Seriously though, it's a legal right, not some sort of new human right or "inalienable right" is are enumerated in various constitutions. As soon as a law is penned which says "Soandso must provide X to Y", Y has a new legal right. One such right that is famous in the US is set of Miranda rights. These were derived from the constitution and laws, but none of them were expressly written anywhere. Particularly the "right to an attourney" is a legal right, as if attourneys did not exist there would be no way to fulfill it. Also, you have the right to be told your rights, that is a legal right. It can nullify an entire case if you are not told your rights before you are arrested.
I think it's a little frivolous, but it's no different than the legal right to phone service we have in the US. We still pay a tax on phone services to create the subsidy that guarantees that right. If you have no phone line, call a telephone company and they will have to run one within a certain distance of your home. From there you must pay to have it connected to your home, but it is free up until then.
I mean, does a 100 year old person have as much of a "right" to some organ replacement surgery or expensive cancer drugs as a 6 year old?
You haven't been paying close enough attention to the debate, they cover this. In fact, the sweet spot is 18-34, with coverage shooting up around age 10 and shooting down around 65-70. I'd say under Obama-care the 6 year old would only be doing slightly better than a 100 year old.
And yup, I completely agree with you. Most people who currently don't have health insurance refused the health insurance offered at work, or are illegal immigrants (there are about 12-15 million of those). We are going through all this nonsense for about 10-15 million people. This is overkill.
People who come from disadvantaged families...
That's a BS red-herring. Work hard, keep your shit straight, and you'll be able to save up for school. People expect far too much far too soon, and rewarding people for coming from a "disadvantaged" home encourages them to stay "disadvantaged", and to teach their kids how to be "disadvantaged" so they can get free stuff from people who feel sorry for them too. And "disadvantaged" in this case usually means "irresponsible shitheads leaching off the government".
I know from personal experience, there is a section of my family that is "disadvantaged" - the sad thing is my aunt has finally (after 30 some odd years) realized she has doomed her two sweet grandkids to the same life she doomed her own kids to, and she is nearly powerless to stop the cycle.
Wake up people, supporting education with grants and scholorships and low intrest loans is wonderful, but this attitude that the "poor and downtrodden" need constant support to do anything in life just keeps them poor and downtrodden! They must have the right to try, the right to succeed, and the right to fail. None of those three should ever be forced uppon them, and success should never be mandated. Otherwise they will forever live in mediocrity at the expense of society as a whole.
Except for the ones that are, of course.
There are a number of small villages in Alaska that can barely get Dialup, and nothing else is available.
I'm sure there are also some small country areas in the continental US that are so spread out the telecoms and cable co.'s have not seen any reason to string broadband infrastructure to every house.
I remember when the the Analog to Digital TV changeover was happening a lot of rural people were upset because they did not have access to any form of cable TV, and digital didn't bounce as well as analog which meant they'd loose all TV access, or some such. Anyway, if they can't get cable, they probably can't get broadband internet either.
If that's supposed to be bad, I'm jealous.
Here I get 3mb cable with a 20gb monthly cap for $70 per month, and it's the fastest and highest value I can get for straight internet.
I could get 10mb with no cap from the same company for about $80 per month, but I would also have to buy a cable and phone service package. The total would be around $200 or so per month.
You've got it easy in NYC, and I know there are still some places in my state where you can't get better than dialup speeds, and if you can they are outrageous.
That's not that hard, really. It takes some care but all you really need to do is separate the peal from the orange before removing the peal from around the orange. This can be done by creating an incision down one side of the orange and working a "bubble" of peal around the orange. Once you've separated the peal, simply slide the orange through the cut you made down the side and there you go.
Now, the hard part is flattening it out without tearing it.
I'm sure you realize, however, when a person leaves a fingerprint you aren't seing the entire surface of the finger, stretched and flattened on a 2d surface. What you are seeing is the outermost contact points of a slightly squishy 3d object. That shouldn't be too hard to replicate, and there certainly isn't a whole lot of cracking or stretching involved.
Take a heavy ruber ball and fill it 4/5 with water and see how much it stretches - it's negligible. Squishing the heavy rubber ball is about how your fingers react, and shouldn't be all that hard to replicate.
I worked for the DoD for about a year just a few years ago and was never fingerprinted. I was a civilian employee too, not a contractor. I did get a thorough background check though. Funny, I got one for my current private job too.
Anyway, I think your fingerprinting was a state mandate, not a federal one.
I (and the many generations after me) get something useful in return.
That's the real caveat, isn't it? Things like Social Security were great for a few generations, but before long you'll have to be above the average lifespan to collect because it is going broke. Never mind the fact that that single program alone accounts for about 1/3 of the US deficit. Think about that for a minute - you have to be 65 to collect, and the average life span is in the upper 70's. It's 1/3 of our national debt, yet it will only cover a little more than 1/10th the average citizen's lifetime. It's benefiting the current generation at the expense of the next, and it's exactly the sort of thing people are afraid of with any large government spending project.
The real insidious thing is the hundreds, if not thousands of $32 million projects that fail, and we end up paying for with nothing to show for it. They each individually are too small to take much notice (even $32 has me going "meh" as far as size of project to be worried about), but taken together they represent massive waste.
As far as this particular project, the hardware costs are probably not more than $1 million, it will probably cost $5-10 million to design the system, which is justifiable, and then the other $21 million are all administrative costs. Then the project will over-run when the people running the project change their minds halfway through (and then again change their minds back, or just to something completely different), causing the engineering costs to skyrocket, which in turn causes the administrative costs to skyrocket. I wouldn't be all that surprised if this $32 million project ends up costing $70 million. It happens all the time.
I did not realize 3d modeling was invented on and solely applies to 3d computer modeling software. Maybe all those clay and wooden models that have been around for hundreds of years are just 2d with a wierd "extra" dimension to them? I dunno.
Oh wait...
You do realize people still make 3d models of products and such, right? As good as computers are, it's hard to get a good feel for a 3d object when viewing it in 2d space. Products are often -designed- on computers, but they still make real-world mockups and models for a lot of things.
Now, I have no way of knowing if the GP was talking about 3d computer modeling, and if he was I understand even less how the post would fit with the subject (what does the computing power for 3d computer modeling have to do with 3d glasses?), but in either case you're wrong. Even in 3d computer modeling the only thing that makes it not "3d" is that it is represented in 2d via the computer screen - the data is often plugged into a machine that creates a 3d object, meaning all 3 dimensions really were there. In other words, you are working on 3d object, you just have limited vision into the 3d object you are working on. 3d modeling is modeling in 3 dimensions, else it isn't 3d modeling.
That, of course, is utter bullshit. If you are a good manager, and your team knows they can voice their disagreements without fear of being "silenced", you will have a team that universally respects you. You have to actually be a good manager that actually listens to the oposing viewpoints before making a decision, but universal respect is certainly within reach of any manager.
I came in to my current position as a manager like this was leaving. In fact he was being promoted by force - they were trying to transition him to upper management and he rejected the position many times, but his options became move up or work for someone else. Anyway, I've been here about eight months and I have yet to hear a negative comment about him. I've heard disagreements about decisions he made, but as far as I can tell he is universally respected and widely considered one of the best bosses my department has ever had, and we have people who have been working in this department for 30+ years. His replacement is pretty good too.
It really helps, I think, that these guys were moved up from within the ranks of the department, and so they know what the hell they are talking about technically. It sucks trying to explain things to a manager that doesn't have a clue how basic stuff works. They have to make big decisions and sometimes they just don't know enough to make the best choice. Unfortunately this is often because they place too much trust in the advice of a person of moderate importance trying to hang onto and expand their power and influence.
You realize you're a moron right?
Let me break a few things down for you.
1.) Yes, there are three distinct legal jurisdictions with their own local laws.
2.) These three nations were united a long time ago into what is known as, oddly enough, the United Kingdom, UK for short.
3.) This United Kingdom has a parliament consisting of representatives from all three of the former nations.
4.) This Parliament enacts laws that apply to all three former nations, and must be adjudicated in each individual former nation.
This means that when an Act is written in Parliament, each legal system must apply it according to their own judicial conventions.
No, there is not an overarching legal system that applies to all three, but Parliamentary acts do apply to all three. That includes the Human Rights Act, which ties into the EU law system and creates a weak constitution of sorts, guaranteeing certain rights.
In other words, you're an idiot.
Holy crap, you mean you have to appeal to a court for a right to appeal your case?
That's messed up man.
2) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/box : you are only allowed to use 'boxen' in a whimsical fashion!
That's so true, have you ever tried to herd boxen? More stubborn than mules I tell you. If they get a mind to they will literally sit in one place for weeks without going anywhere, no matter how hard you poke and prod them.
It's an archaic usage, only slightly more common than using "ill" for "poorly". It's legit, but it isn't exactly used in common language outside of phrases like "loose the hounds" or "loose the dogs of war" and such. It seems to be used a lot with dogs, now that I think about it. GP's own example involved dogs.
It's also worth noting that, nowhere in your sig did you say loose was only a verb, just that the word that means the opposite of tight has two O's, not one.
you have English law, applicable to England and Wales.... and Scots law , applicable to Scotland
and then we have Northern Irish Law
Well no wonder, that explains it.
As long as there are activities that are illegal but harm no one but the person doing it (an often harm no one at all), you're not really free.
Societies generally consider such activities as harmful to society as a whole, and therefore need to be inhibitted. If you think about it for a minute you should be able to recognize that while a single individual harming themself does no harm to others, large numbers of individuals harming themselves will cause significant damage to society as a whole. Taken individually it is no big deal, but taken as a whole it harms all of society.
I'll illustrate this with a fairly absurd example: Suppose people start poking their eyes out because, for some reason, it's a lot of fun. The individual isn't harming anybody else, he is only harming himself, but what if 20 million people did it? Now those 20 million people need to be cared for, and create a significant burden on society as a whole.
That's the basic justification for making personal choices illegal, and it's a valid one. The real question, is why is one societal ill simply regulated (like tobacco and alcohol), while others (recreational drugs) are completely illegal. They are generally pretty close in their effects, particularly compared to alcohol.
I don't think there really is a free country in the entire world, but I may be showing my ignorance here.
A perfectly free country is impossible. There is a point at which any more freedom to the individual reduces the freedom of those individuals around him. For example, in a truly free country it would not be illegal to steal someone else's car. However you have just taken away the right of that person to drive his own car. In truth a free country is simply a country that has the people as the ultimate authority, and generally strives to provide the maximum freedom possible to each individual citizen. The only way to be 100% free is to live off in the woods by yourself. If nobody knows you are there, nobody can restrict your freedom. It would kinda suck though.
It's funny to note that the US is moving away from individual freedom while China is moving towards it. What a world, huh?
Tape + thin ceramic powder coating = ceramic cables.
There are a few companies that make super-conducting cable systems, saying they are expensive is a bit of an understatement.
The parent to your post apparently doesn't know that metal wires are possible because they are ductile. Copper is extremely ductile and very conductive, and relatively cheap. Hence it is the most popular conductor for electrical wiring. The whole lot of you (GP on down) apparently don't realize that there may be other ways to make cables out of stiff materials than drawing them out into a long strand, as in copper wire.
Did you even read any of those? Not a single article you linked to mentions a single SC cable that is actually in place. Every single one of them were "plans for the future" based on new technology.
That's not to say it isn't possible, it certainly is, but it is extremely expensive. These are very exotic materials and there are only a few applications where the cost to chill the cables is less than the waste of copper.
What the parent was referring to was the fact that ceramic is not ductile, and therefor assumed that cables were out of the question - traditional drawn-wire cables certainly are. The popular technique seems to be a ceramic tape instead of drawn cable.
A 250k super-conductor, provided the techniques for creating it are not prohibitively expensive, would open up a whole new world of applications. The only thing left is to pump it up another 150 degrees and we'll have room-temp superconducting. That will make a whole host of things possible.
Damn, I love documentaries.
I blow most of my monthly internet cap (I have really shitty internet that I pay far too much for) on documentaries on netflix.
7 of 9 had big boobs and steel in her face, what's not to love?
Just remember to de-amplify the flux-capacitor. Bad things happen when you don't.
I don't know why that goo in the middle of solder needs a capacitor, but it does! And it must be de-amplified! The positronic matrix will de-stabilize if you're not careful anyway, best not to add more risk than necessary.
That has to be the worst show on television. What dumbshit in the Miami PD is letting the goddamn forensics lead run all their investigations? Why the hell is forensics interviewing suspects? Why are they arresting the bad guys? That isn't their job, and in the "real world" I imagine any case where that happened would be laughed out of court.
I've never had a negative opinion of the actor portraying a character, but there is no way you can play a pompous, self-rightous ass that well without actually being one in real life.
And I was able to suspend disbelief enough to quite thoroughly enjoy the original CSI, which shared a few of CSI: Miami's flaws to a lesser degree. Man, just thinking about how much I hate CSI: Miami gets me worked up, lol.