For example, several years ago it was determined that the satellite-based sensing of ocean surface temperature was off by several degrees, because the atmospheric effects on the IR radiation being used to measure the temperature weren't being correctly corrected. It is no surprise to hear that any proxy measurement has been found to be off with a biased error.
What? Bias? Well, "biased error" is the technical term for an error in measurement that is wrong in a consistent manner. For example, a thermometer that has been miscalibrated so that it always reads high. But please do not mention this possibility of measurement error to anyone involved in global warming research. They are right, everyone else is wrong.
I am unaware of the experiment and controversy surrounding it, have a link to a peer reviewed journal article?
Really, even if a bias is discovered later in an experiment and if that bias can be estimated, whether the added error is constant or variable, corrections to the old data can be made and the corrected data would be accurate. This assumes the supposed error is actually an error and not some global warming denier's fantasy. One correctable error does not mean that all of the data from the experiment is useless, and the same conclusion from the experiment can still hold.
Even if the data from an experiment has uncorrectable errors and the data is faulty, GW deniers have one experiment discredited, and only have a whole truck load more valid experiments showing Global Warming to discredit. GW deniers still have still shown no credible alternate to explain the trends in the world's climate. Thus, GW deniers are just that, in denial, they are not advocating their own hypothesis by using accepted scientific practices and existing data.
Don't EVER ask why they assume that CO2, a gas that is soluble in water to a great extent, cannot diffuse out of air bubbles in ice that have been trapped for millenia. It is the measurement of CO2 in those bubbles that global warming scientists use to tell us what the level of CO2 was ten thousand years ago -- even though there is no recorded measurement from then, and only the proxy of "trapped bubbles" to rely on.
Water, in its solid crystalline form, ice, has no capability to hold CO2 in solution, only liquid water can hold CO2 in solution. It would seem to follow that when trapped in a gas bubble in ice, CO2 does not diffuse because water ice is not permeable to CO2 at any of the temperatures or pressures that the ice has been at since it formed.
Many people have strong feelings that disaster is about to occur. Perhaps this comes from childhood recollections of maternal warnings about running with scissors or touching hot stoves.
Today's strong feelings of disaster are prompted by catastrophe-based science and the scientists who are paid to find solutions to catastrophes. Scientists who warn us that a stray comet could obliterate life on this planet don't get paid to deal with comets that don't come anywhere near us. Scientists who predict gloom and doom from global warming don't get paid if they report that there really isn't a problem. I am repeatedly fascinated by global warming scientists who dismiss studies that contradict their cries of alarm as the product of people who are being paid to say there is no problem. Why would the only scientists who lack ethics be the ones on one side of an issue? (The state of Oregon just created a group to deal with global warming issues. Do you think that the head of this group is someone who doesn't toe the line regarding the causes and results of global warming? He's getting paid, so why aren't his ethics questioned?)
I'm not sure how to respond, I am nearly certain that over many the years as corporations like Phillip Morris, Exxon, and alike sponsored anti-GW groups, that at least some research was done at least one sound and valid published study should still be available. No
Was the system of government that came immediately after mob rule in those cases very good? No, in nearly every case the governments were weak and replaced with a usually much more brutal form of government. The French Revolution and the subsequent government of Napoleon were not known for a general improvement in human rights.
I could add more instances, but instead I will say that the government formed by the Articles of Confederation which came immediately after the American Revolution was unstable and things could very well have gone downhill quickly. Fortunately, a number of people concerned with the stability of the government under the Articles of Confederation had a constitutional convention. Together these people drew up the current US Constitution, which did solve the immediate stability problem. However, they left many other problems unsolved so that a compromise could be achieved. With the nonviolent mechanisms provided, nearly all of the remaining problems were solved, in time. Violence, for the most part, was only used when absolutely necessary.
The much delayed future Itanium core, Tukwila, will be produced on the 65nm process. Release may come later this year. Since Intel's competitors are planning to use a 45nm SOI eLow-K process for their competing CPUs, unless Tukwila is some super great processor, Intel may want to consider using its newest fab process for the Tukwila follow up. If Intel thought that attempting to recover more money from a fab by reusing it for the Itanium or chipsets for current x86 processors, the low quality of the products produced would seem to indicate that this was a bad idea.
Perhaps pepper spray sprayed a wide arc would work. Or maybe one could lob miniature tear gas canisters at the deer. Or just use VX nerve gas on them, those deer really do deserve it. If disposing of deer carcasses in order to avoid uncomfortable questions from game wardens, or even disposing of dead wardens is an issue, gas the deer with either Chlorine Trifluoride or Hydrogen Fluoride from lawn sprinklers. The deer will wander off, but will die in a couple of hours. Seal your house well and spraypaint any grass that ends up dying green. Finding a legitimate reason to posses or manufacture any of the above mentioned chemicals is an exercise left to the reader.
Yes, but being hit by a burning spray of ClF3 and UMDH would not be an acceptable response if you were tapping on someone's shoulder lightly. This would be especially true if you were trying to get their attention to point out an unexpected oncoming train. Even more so if you did it because the train seems to have escaped their notice.
The circular reasoning you mentioned is flawed and thus not circular, the issue is emission standards and lack of consistency and quality control in each batch, that is why making your own gasoline is impossible. Besides, totally synthetic gasoline, usable in current unmodified gasoline engines, does not exist or is too expensive to produce. The marginally viable techniques available today for synthetic fuels are unable to produce hydrocarbons of molecular weights suitable for use as gasoline. This includes techniques such as: coal to liquids, biodiesel, ethanol, or methanol. Making synthetic diesel or kerosene is not difficult, however.
I am reminded of how well not compromising works when I look at how well the uncompromising candidates from the Libertarian Party do each election. They're batting maybe.0001 on the local level and.0000 on the national level. Compromise is a major portion of how governments actually run.
Also, I assume that you paid or are paying your taxes again, if you live in the US you still have to pay your taxes and applicable fines. Otherwise, your current state of residence will garnish your wages to obtain the taxes and fines you owe your previous state of residence. Your employer will readily comply and deduct the amount you owe. An employer would not go to the mat for you on a tax related issue. Especially since you seem to consider it a "moral" issue, which is not a valid defense at trial on tax related criminal charges. This assumes you are not a fugitive, then arrest and extradition will be automatic.
While having HPV can cause cervical cancer in women, this type of cancer is a relatively minor inconvenience in the developed world. The type of cervical cancer caused by this virus does not happen often and the cancer can be successfully treated in most cases. The other effects of the virus are also reasonably easy to treat as well. It may not make sense from an actuarial standpoint combined with any risks receiving the HPV vaccine may carry when compared to treating the effects of HPV. While there is a risk to girls who do not receive the HPV vaccine, HPV is not necessarily life threatening, in the developed world, and the vaccine costs roughly US$200 for the entire course. This vaccine is especially questionable as HPV is generally transmitted by sexual contact and currently boys and young men, as well as the general population of all ages are not being encouraged to recieve the HPV vaccine.
This is not true in the developing world, HPV can often be lethal, and in most cases this is from direct effects of HPV and not from cervical cancer caused by HPV. Some of this is due to a lack of trained doctors, medicine and proper treatment of HPV, as well as a general state of disorder in the medical field in the developing world. I have not heard of any attempts at wide scale HPV vaccinations in the developing world. Assuming this is true, it would seem to me that the vaccine manufacturer is really only interested in causing a scare to make profits in the developed world and not really interested in reducing the deaths related to HPV in the developing world. This is not a morally justifiable set of actions to take, in my opinion. If we expect flesh and blood people to behave in a moral fashion, why can't corporate "people" behave in a similar way? In this case the HPV vaccine manufacturer could license the rights to the vaccine to other manufacturers who would be willing to sell it in the developing world. This assumes that ramping up the production of the HPV vaccine to the required volume would not be easy, this is the case with other vaccines in use. Perhaps some sort of investment in additional vaccine manufacturing capacity would allow more people in developing nations to be vaccinated against common diseases.
I am amazed that CCP's ECONOMIST - they employ a Doctor - would say such a thing as "Oh, you have to realize the amount although it looks big, is only about 1% of the EVE economy" - HUH? EVE has probably in the region of 200,000 chars... up to 40,000 on at any given time, and you're saying the fact that 137 accounts (the number banned for direct involvement) having 1% of the economy is not a big amount?!?
So this is pretty much like the world as it exists today, isn't it? Yet there is serious howling against any sort of punishment, from certain groups, when the top 1% of the wealthy in real life do similar crimes. Prosecution, restitution, fines and prison time are only the results in the highest profile cases.
The argument all along has been that the scientists with the most to gain from government action -- through grants or regulation or whatever -- are the ones most likely to agree on anthropogenic climate change. In that much, the study seems right on target...
Who would you have liked to have seen asked, what are their credentials, and why are they authorities on the subject? There really is no conspiracy, in this case and in any other cases. These scientists are being truthful and their livelihoods were not at stake here.
One more time: Runaway1956 won't recognize any scientist with evidence that disagrees with his opinion. He will also put forth weak, solely qualitative "facts". These "facts" are easily refuted with by quantitatively analyzing their substance. Add enough of their refuted "facts" and stir in old misconceptions long ago abandoned by honest scientists. Hell, according to Runaway1956 global warming COULD NEVER AT ALL BE man's fault, but that doesn't change the fact that the Runaway1956s of the earth won't hear any evidence that might repudiate their pre-formed opinions. Good grief......
There, I added, twisted, quoted out you out of context. Next, you can go crawl back into you hole and die, hopefully do so in an extremely painful way. Meanwhile, the rest of us will have to figure out a plan to deal with your old, daily commutes in your Ford Excursion. While initially these changes may be hard to deal with, no one will be forced to start foraging for food and living off the land. Doing nothing now would probably make things much worse in the long run, but not the end of mankind. However, if we can soften the blow in the end by making small or moderate changes to how things are done now, then this would be better.
Also, as to the FTA I have to giggle whenever I read about running out of a given element. Platinum and indium and other such metals will always be able to be recovered, recycled, mined, or even bred in nuclear reactors. The costs, however, would vary a quite a bit depending on the source. Also, there are often other devices that use different elements that are more common, but are not currently viable due to current prices and current methods of production.
This site, RationalWiki, which was set up to viciously mock and debunk Conservapedia and other similar sources with similar content as well. I think that RationalWiki does does a pretty good job at this.
Well, with combat knives, and using these knives to grievously injure, but more likely ending up killing a flight attendant and IMO, most likely the pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer were also killed. Also, there was the application of some kind of liquid noxious chemical agent in the first class section. I'm not sure if it was determined ever if this chemical was lethal, or just an irritant for instance something similar in effects to tear gas. This is what I vaguely remember from published sources when the recorded conversations were released a few years ago. The one much of this comes from I think was a conversation with a flight attendant from the second collision in the World Trade Center. I don't feel like finding sources right now, and may be wrong in places, so go to Wikipedia or get the transcripts from the FAA, NTSB, or whomever.
Don't forget the two competing and incompatible 56K standards, K56flex and X2. The K56flex "standard" could be broken down into K56 and 56flex with each standard only having partial compatibility. After a while it was that 56K modems should be standardized. It took time, but V.90, was eventually disgorged from the ITU-T standards committee. The upload speeds to the ISP were still stuck at 33.6kbs for all V.90 and earlier modems, however. So the ITU-T unwisely gave it another go and created the V.92 standard which had faster upload speeds of up to 48kbs. This came at an expense, of slower download speeds when faster upload speeds were in operation. Along with this a few more unused, useless features were added into V.92 by the ITU-T. The more efficient V.44 compression and error correction method came still later. Now you know why modems suck. Remember Winmodems, especially in computers of that age, now you why dial-up was so bad. Add the old free version of Net-Zero, with the ads, and don't expect to do much, or anything at all, especially when running Windows ME.
Fixed that for you. Those figures would probably not be too far off, and raster graphics can look within 90% of the same quality that ray-tracing achieves with raster graphics only doing 10% of the amount of computations than ray-tracing.
Also, the still renders using ray-tracing that Intel has put out are often done with global illumination. The scenes rendered are also intentionally assembled in a way to make ray-tracing look dramatically better than the same scene rendered with extremely basic raster rendering techniques pictured beside it.
For that matter, any serious attempt at real time graphics using ray tracing will use the rays only casted from the camera position to render the scene and not global illumination. Such a renderer would also limit the number of reflections or refractions a ray could take, further reducing image quality. Reduction in the number of computations to a manageable size for a real time ray-tracing renderer would be the reason these would be done.
A similar quality real time rendering with most of the benefits of can be achieved with raster type rendering with secondary rays casted into translucent objects. This is more complicated for the programmer, but would have nearly the same visual quality, with much less math and at an acceptable frame rate using higher resolutions than ray-tracing could handle on similar hardware.
Perhaps I/O would be better, if the average PC had not started to use PCI Express? Throughput is nice, but so is low latency, as well as DMA operations for PCIe switches. I suppose lower latency in parallel PCI-X DDR 533 is why one would find PCI-X slots like those in use with IBM POWER6 systems. PCIe seems to me at least to have been forced down the throats of PC users regardless of its level of appropriateness, which we can than Intel and Rambus for. Many of the patents for PCIe signaling are held by Rambus. We PC users got screwed, again, by Rambus.
In any case, according to PLX, their best PCIe 1.1 switches have about 110ns of latency for devices without a non-transparent port and 150ns for those bridges with a non-transparent port. The latency for PLX PCIe bridges for PCIe 2.0 devices are in the 140ns range and those switches all have a non-transparent port. Non-transparent ports are essentially a fall back port for redundancy at the switch level so that the primary computer can fail, but an always on hot backup computer can seamlessly take over for it. This assumes you are using external PCIe expansion chassis with the required cables, none of which are cheap either, and are generally custom made. By all means, though, check the latency numbers at: http://www.plxtech.com/
It seems to me, that when Intel hypes a new forthcoming CPU that it often fails to mention the poor performance of the chipset to be paired with that CPU. The CPU ends up using the newest and greatest process, but saddles the CPU with a process at least two process nodes back. Not surprisingly, when the CPU and processor are matched together, the performance is often atrocious, due to the low performance chipset. Intel also has bad habit of attempting to save silicon die area by just dropping portions from the chip. Another company making the same chip could never get away with dropping the portions that Intel does in their designs. Intel gets away with it though because it essentially has a monopoly on x86 chips and Intel sets their poor performance as the baseline for the industry. Basically, Intel no longer cares about anything else other than raking in the cash.
I look forward to seeing Microsoft and Intel ending up being broken up and no longer being a force in the computer industry. Intel and Microsoft have each acted so egregiously, that Antitrust charges are probably being worked on by government lawyers for both companies.
No, I just thought that pairing an Intel Atom processor with Windows Vista in any device that needs to be considered usable in some capacity was stupid. This device manages to violate and manage to fall even farther below whatever standards I originally had as to both the uselessness and stupidity present in both the Atom Processor and Windows Vista individually.
Combining these two products has actually made them both worth even less than the products would be separately. Using these components, this tablet is a product worth less after being assembled and thus these components would be worth more in their unassembled state in their original shipping containers.
For a roughly $3000 machine like this, and using the same suppliers there should be a ULV Core 2 Solo or Duo present and it should run Windows XP. I suppose a more intelligent decision for this device might involve an AMD Turion variant with an RS690M or RS780M chipset. The system originally mentioned in the review could never run Vista Buisiness at any better than speeds that would be measured in a geological timescale, like continental drift from plate tectonics. I suppose a Geforce 9300 chipset coupled with a Core 2 would also work. Choosing to run Linux might also be a good idea and using some sort of ARM processor might also help a fair amount in the sanity (and cost) department.
Nice try Intel, Microsoft and Panasonic, but this is still an epic fail. As currently designed, this is overkill in the OS category, and falls far short of what is required in the CPU category when the fact that Vista is considered. A device like this could be much smaller, cheaper, and even more rugged than this over-engineered piece of trash. The product line that these three jokers err... corporations might end up producing would disappear like iPod competitors when a more useful competing product came out, not that Apple would release a product like this.
Would Alpine (the descendant of Pine) be a good replacement for Outlook Express or Windows Mail, in your opinion as well? It might be harder to do damage to a Windows install with Alpine than with Outlook Express or Windows Mail. However, I should never underestimate the power of stupid Windows lusers, though.
I was looking at the page source for this story and found something a bit interesting. I was looking though the page source because I didn't know how to format a link in HTML properly. Which is a bit pathetic on my part, I know. This is the interesting Javascript code:
On this page it starts on line 21, when viewing the source. Anyone have an idea as to what the "nod" and "nix" terms refer to? The terms following "metanod and "metanix" appear to be the usual terms used in moderation of comments. However, I never remember the "nod" and "nix" terms ever being used for moderation. I have been unable to moderate since moderating the "Thread of Doom", but no changes like this have been made as far as I am aware of.
Would heavy I/O tasks, include the heavy use of the pagefile in a bottom of the line Intel system without enough physical RAM, running XP or Vista and from just about any major computer manufacturer? I wonder how long an MLC flash drive would last and what the write performance would be? Note: this applies to both laptops and desktops and the power savings between a hard drive and an SSD are fairly minimal.
Sure, drives with SLC flash have features that mitigate some of the issues that MLC flash has, however, if you expect that SSD price per GB and total capacity to overtake hard drives anytime soon, you are in for a bit of a disappointment. Hard drive manufacturers are doing their best to increase storage on mechanical drives and hard drives have plenty of ways available to increase their storage capacity.
Yeah, having a homeland and wanting to leave peacefully in it as a majority population with a state of our own, that is one racist and vicious ideology held by those Israelis...
Well, you did say this, and while I did quote you out of context, it is a bit racist to assume that you have the right to appropriate the land due to what happened 1800 years ago to the followers of a religion that you identify with, but you are not closely related to. If think you have the right to retake the same or a greater amount of land that these ancient religious followers lived on according to historical records. An aggravating fact in this case is that past as well as current means that were used violated international norms and standards regardless of the time they occurred in order to appropriate the land. If the government that you impose is an explicitly and extensively theocratic state with a thin veneer of democracy. Then yes, all of these would indicate that you are racist.
The OBD (OnBoard Diagnostics) system on my 1996 Honda Odyssey "Minivan" had its "Engine Misfire" sensor intentionally disabled, which caused the emissions released to violate EPA standards. The EPA sued Honda, and both came to an agreement that gave owners free replacement of the defective components under a "warranty extension". The lawsuit was settled back in 1998, however. Seriously, did you think the same thing would have happened at any time recently under Cheney err, W?
Then there is also the Apple Powerbook 5300 series that had a seven year "warranty extension". The 5300 series were awful, in both quality, durability, and performance. If you didn't get one of the first laptops in the 5300 series, you missed out on the self-igniting Lithium-ion batteries. Later 5300 series owners, still had to deal with power jacks that liked to fail by separating from the motherboard or the magic screen hinges that could close unexpectedly on one's hand at any moment, among other problems. On other machines from 1995 and 1996, Apple had "warranty extensions" to fix problems that impaired the computer's use, but that were not of any danger or that affected actual functionality.
While this Zune problem is serious, a patch should be issued if possible, or a free replacement/upgrade program should be offered to owners.
Disclosure: I do not own a Zune of the model in question, much less any Zune. I own a 60GB 5G iPod, the only Turing-complete Apple branded device I own. I would hope that Apple would do the same if such a flaw was present in my iPod even at this date.
I don't know how the grandparent poster expected the diesel fuel for the generator to be stored. Above ground in freezing temperatures diesel is useless. I'm not sure I want to know what the costs to use an underground epoxy coated tank are exactly. However, there are government permits, installation costs, and the cost of the tank itself to consider. I am going to guess that the hassle and cost of any underground tank, diesel, gasoline, or LP would all be high, and not worth the trouble.
Still, those costs would be lower than the final cost of having a large underground plume of diesel below your property and under your neighbor's property too. Bonus points if you or your neighbors end up with drinking water wells contaminated with diesel on property. This would almost certainly be the result of the low initial costs of improperly installing and improperly maintaining an underground storage tank.
For the submitter of the story, I would use local sources of information to determine what climate appropriate steps to take for your home when the power goes out again. In a suburban, residential situation I would not expect another power outage of this length for another 20 years. In the 25 years my parents have lived in their home in the suburbs, there was one power outage in January 1996 that lasted four days. There was no damage to the water pipes, however several plants were frozen and killed in below zero Fahrenheit weather. Other than that there have been no memorable power outages lasting longer than three hours.
Not every task a computer might perform takes as much CPU time or can be parallelized into another CPU as easily as one might like.
To use a liquid combustion vehicular analogy, ten school buses can travel ten miles each. If the distance traveled in these school buses is added together the total distance of travel would be 100 miles. Also, in a different situation one school bus alone can travel 100 miles.
In both cases, the same number of total miles have been traveled. However, in the situation where these school buses must pick up area students for another school day. Each school bus would drive their own route. Obviously, this would be done to cover the entire area the school serves. This is obviously more effective, and faster, than having one bus drive all 100 miles of a single route on its own.
On the other hand, ten school buses traveling ten miles each won't help a single bit if only one school bus needs to transport only one bus load of students to another city 100 miles away say for an overnight school outing of some sort.
In the first case, using ten school buses makes sense, this is analogous to a situation where a using threads on a multi-core CPU would be faster. However, in a situation similar to the second, multiple processors would not help speed up a task a bit, these tasks would just need to be done in serial. In any case, most tasks a modern computer might need to do fall in between each extreme. My point is, don't expect miracles just from the presence of more cores on your CPU. Also, not all serial tasks are easy to make parallel, especially when many are difficult to program with available thread APIs. Debugging is even harder when multiple data transactions occur between the threads. I'm not sure how easy it is to debug C++ currently, but I remember gdb was nearly useless back in 2000. For that matter, programming in a concurrent manner, in C or even C++, is not taught in colleges very much. I'm not even sure how much C and C++ are taught in the first place. From what I know using C is still probably easier to program, produces faster code, and easier to debug when using threads, but is C even taught at all in Computer Science courses these days?
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For example, several years ago it was determined that the satellite-based sensing of ocean surface temperature was off by several degrees, because the atmospheric effects on the IR radiation being used to measure the temperature weren't being correctly corrected. It is no surprise to hear that any proxy measurement has been found to be off with a biased error.
What? Bias? Well, "biased error" is the technical term for an error in measurement that is wrong in a consistent manner. For example, a thermometer that has been miscalibrated so that it always reads high.
But please do not mention this possibility of measurement error to anyone involved in global warming research. They are right, everyone else is wrong.
I am unaware of the experiment and controversy surrounding it, have a link to a peer reviewed journal article?
Really, even if a bias is discovered later in an experiment and if that bias can be estimated, whether the added error is constant or variable, corrections to the old data can be made and the corrected data would be accurate. This assumes the supposed error is actually an error and not some global warming denier's fantasy. One correctable error does not mean that all of the data from the experiment is useless, and the same conclusion from the experiment can still hold.
Even if the data from an experiment has uncorrectable errors and the data is faulty, GW deniers have one experiment discredited, and only have a whole truck load more valid experiments showing Global Warming to discredit. GW deniers still have still shown no credible alternate to explain the trends in the world's climate. Thus, GW deniers are just that, in denial, they are not advocating their own hypothesis by using accepted scientific practices and existing data.
Don't EVER ask why they assume that CO2, a gas that is soluble in water to a great extent, cannot diffuse out of air bubbles in ice that have been trapped for millenia. It is the measurement of CO2 in those bubbles that global warming scientists use to tell us what the level of CO2 was ten thousand years ago -- even though there is no recorded measurement from then, and only the proxy of "trapped bubbles" to rely on.
Water, in its solid crystalline form, ice, has no capability to hold CO2 in solution, only liquid water can hold CO2 in solution. It would seem to follow that when trapped in a gas bubble in ice, CO2 does not diffuse because water ice is not permeable to CO2 at any of the temperatures or pressures that the ice has been at since it formed.
Many people have strong feelings that disaster is about to occur. Perhaps this comes from childhood recollections of maternal warnings about running with scissors or touching hot stoves.
Today's strong feelings of disaster are prompted by catastrophe-based science and the scientists who are paid to find solutions to catastrophes. Scientists who warn us that a stray comet could obliterate life on this planet don't get paid to deal with comets that don't come anywhere near us. Scientists who predict gloom and doom from global warming don't get paid if they report that there really isn't a problem. I am repeatedly fascinated by global warming scientists who dismiss studies that contradict their cries of alarm as the product of people who are being paid to say there is no problem. Why would the only scientists who lack ethics be the ones on one side of an issue? (The state of Oregon just created a group to deal with global warming issues. Do you think that the head of this group is someone who doesn't toe the line regarding the causes and results of global warming? He's getting paid, so why aren't his ethics questioned?)
I'm not sure how to respond, I am nearly certain that over many the years as corporations like Phillip Morris, Exxon, and alike sponsored anti-GW groups, that at least some research was done at least one sound and valid published study should still be available. No
Was the system of government that came immediately after mob rule in those cases very good? No, in nearly every case the governments were weak and replaced with a usually much more brutal form of government. The French Revolution and the subsequent government of Napoleon were not known for a general improvement in human rights.
I could add more instances, but instead I will say that the government formed by the Articles of Confederation which came immediately after the American Revolution was unstable and things could very well have gone downhill quickly. Fortunately, a number of people concerned with the stability of the government under the Articles of Confederation had a constitutional convention. Together these people drew up the current US Constitution, which did solve the immediate stability problem. However, they left many other problems unsolved so that a compromise could be achieved. With the nonviolent mechanisms provided, nearly all of the remaining problems were solved, in time. Violence, for the most part, was only used when absolutely necessary.
The much delayed future Itanium core, Tukwila, will be produced on the 65nm process. Release may come later this year. Since Intel's competitors are planning to use a 45nm SOI eLow-K process for their competing CPUs, unless Tukwila is some super great processor, Intel may want to consider using its newest fab process for the Tukwila follow up. If Intel thought that attempting to recover more money from a fab by reusing it for the Itanium or chipsets for current x86 processors, the low quality of the products produced would seem to indicate that this was a bad idea.
Perhaps pepper spray sprayed a wide arc would work. Or maybe one could lob miniature tear gas canisters at the deer. Or just use VX nerve gas on them, those deer really do deserve it. If disposing of deer carcasses in order to avoid uncomfortable questions from game wardens, or even disposing of dead wardens is an issue, gas the deer with either Chlorine Trifluoride or Hydrogen Fluoride from lawn sprinklers. The deer will wander off, but will die in a couple of hours. Seal your house well and spraypaint any grass that ends up dying green. Finding a legitimate reason to posses or manufacture any of the above mentioned chemicals is an exercise left to the reader.
Yes, but being hit by a burning spray of ClF3 and UMDH would not be an acceptable response if you were tapping on someone's shoulder lightly. This would be especially true if you were trying to get their attention to point out an unexpected oncoming train. Even more so if you did it because the train seems to have escaped their notice.
The circular reasoning you mentioned is flawed and thus not circular, the issue is emission standards and lack of consistency and quality control in each batch, that is why making your own gasoline is impossible. Besides, totally synthetic gasoline, usable in current unmodified gasoline engines, does not exist or is too expensive to produce. The marginally viable techniques available today for synthetic fuels are unable to produce hydrocarbons of molecular weights suitable for use as gasoline. This includes techniques such as: coal to liquids, biodiesel, ethanol, or methanol. Making synthetic diesel or kerosene is not difficult, however.
I am reminded of how well not compromising works when I look at how well the uncompromising candidates from the Libertarian Party do each election. They're batting maybe .0001 on the local level and .0000 on the national level. Compromise is a major portion of how governments actually run.
Also, I assume that you paid or are paying your taxes again, if you live in the US you still have to pay your taxes and applicable fines. Otherwise, your current state of residence will garnish your wages to obtain the taxes and fines you owe your previous state of residence. Your employer will readily comply and deduct the amount you owe. An employer would not go to the mat for you on a tax related issue. Especially since you seem to consider it a "moral" issue, which is not a valid defense at trial on tax related criminal charges. This assumes you are not a fugitive, then arrest and extradition will be automatic.
While having HPV can cause cervical cancer in women, this type of cancer is a relatively minor inconvenience in the developed world. The type of cervical cancer caused by this virus does not happen often and the cancer can be successfully treated in most cases. The other effects of the virus are also reasonably easy to treat as well. It may not make sense from an actuarial standpoint combined with any risks receiving the HPV vaccine may carry when compared to treating the effects of HPV. While there is a risk to girls who do not receive the HPV vaccine, HPV is not necessarily life threatening, in the developed world, and the vaccine costs roughly US$200 for the entire course. This vaccine is especially questionable as HPV is generally transmitted by sexual contact and currently boys and young men, as well as the general population of all ages are not being encouraged to recieve the HPV vaccine.
This is not true in the developing world, HPV can often be lethal, and in most cases this is from direct effects of HPV and not from cervical cancer caused by HPV. Some of this is due to a lack of trained doctors, medicine and proper treatment of HPV, as well as a general state of disorder in the medical field in the developing world. I have not heard of any attempts at wide scale HPV vaccinations in the developing world. Assuming this is true, it would seem to me that the vaccine manufacturer is really only interested in causing a scare to make profits in the developed world and not really interested in reducing the deaths related to HPV in the developing world. This is not a morally justifiable set of actions to take, in my opinion. If we expect flesh and blood people to behave in a moral fashion, why can't corporate "people" behave in a similar way? In this case the HPV vaccine manufacturer could license the rights to the vaccine to other manufacturers who would be willing to sell it in the developing world. This assumes that ramping up the production of the HPV vaccine to the required volume would not be easy, this is the case with other vaccines in use. Perhaps some sort of investment in additional vaccine manufacturing capacity would allow more people in developing nations to be vaccinated against common diseases.
As compared to the nutritional content of your average bar of gold bullion.
I am amazed that CCP's ECONOMIST - they employ a Doctor - would say such a thing as "Oh, you have to realize the amount although it looks big, is only about 1% of the EVE economy" - HUH? EVE has probably in the region of 200,000 chars... up to 40,000 on at any given time, and you're saying the fact that 137 accounts (the number banned for direct involvement) having 1% of the economy is not a big amount?!?
So this is pretty much like the world as it exists today, isn't it? Yet there is serious howling against any sort of punishment, from certain groups, when the top 1% of the wealthy in real life do similar crimes. Prosecution, restitution, fines and prison time are only the results in the highest profile cases.
The argument all along has been that the scientists with the most to gain from government action -- through grants or regulation or whatever -- are the ones most likely to agree on anthropogenic climate change. In that much, the study seems right on target...
Who would you have liked to have seen asked, what are their credentials, and why are they authorities on the subject? There really is no conspiracy, in this case and in any other cases. These scientists are being truthful and their livelihoods were not at stake here.
One more time: Runaway1956 won't recognize any scientist with evidence that disagrees with his opinion. He will also put forth weak, solely qualitative "facts". These "facts" are easily refuted with by quantitatively analyzing their substance. Add enough of their refuted "facts" and stir in old misconceptions long ago abandoned by honest scientists. Hell, according to Runaway1956 global warming COULD NEVER AT ALL BE man's fault, but that doesn't change the fact that the Runaway1956s of the earth won't hear any evidence that might repudiate their pre-formed opinions. Good grief......
There, I added, twisted, quoted out you out of context. Next, you can go crawl back into you hole and die, hopefully do so in an extremely painful way. Meanwhile, the rest of us will have to figure out a plan to deal with your old, daily commutes in your Ford Excursion. While initially these changes may be hard to deal with, no one will be forced to start foraging for food and living off the land. Doing nothing now would probably make things much worse in the long run, but not the end of mankind. However, if we can soften the blow in the end by making small or moderate changes to how things are done now, then this would be better.
Also, as to the FTA I have to giggle whenever I read about running out of a given element. Platinum and indium and other such metals will always be able to be recovered, recycled, mined, or even bred in nuclear reactors. The costs, however, would vary a quite a bit depending on the source. Also, there are often other devices that use different elements that are more common, but are not currently viable due to current prices and current methods of production.
In regards to the adequacy of homeschooling, may I direct you to this font of knowledge advocating homeschooling:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
On the other hand there is site:
http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
This site, RationalWiki, which was set up to viciously mock and debunk Conservapedia and other similar sources with similar content as well. I think that RationalWiki does does a pretty good job at this.
Well, with combat knives, and using these knives to grievously injure, but more likely ending up killing a flight attendant and IMO, most likely the pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer were also killed. Also, there was the application of some kind of liquid noxious chemical agent in the first class section. I'm not sure if it was determined ever if this chemical was lethal, or just an irritant for instance something similar in effects to tear gas. This is what I vaguely remember from published sources when the recorded conversations were released a few years ago. The one much of this comes from I think was a conversation with a flight attendant from the second collision in the World Trade Center. I don't feel like finding sources right now, and may be wrong in places, so go to Wikipedia or get the transcripts from the FAA, NTSB, or whomever.
Don't forget the two competing and incompatible 56K standards, K56flex and X2. The K56flex "standard" could be broken down into K56 and 56flex with each standard only having partial compatibility. After a while it was that 56K modems should be standardized. It took time, but V.90, was eventually disgorged from the ITU-T standards committee. The upload speeds to the ISP were still stuck at 33.6kbs for all V.90 and earlier modems, however. So the ITU-T unwisely gave it another go and created the V.92 standard which had faster upload speeds of up to 48kbs. This came at an expense, of slower download speeds when faster upload speeds were in operation. Along with this a few more unused, useless features were added into V.92 by the ITU-T. The more efficient V.44 compression and error correction method came still later. Now you know why modems suck. Remember Winmodems, especially in computers of that age, now you why dial-up was so bad. Add the old free version of Net-Zero, with the ads, and don't expect to do much, or anything at all, especially when running Windows ME.
Ray-tracing at 640x480@10fps, anyone?
Fixed that for you. Those figures would probably not be too far off, and raster graphics can look within 90% of the same quality that ray-tracing achieves with raster graphics only doing 10% of the amount of computations than ray-tracing.
Also, the still renders using ray-tracing that Intel has put out are often done with global illumination. The scenes rendered are also intentionally assembled in a way to make ray-tracing look dramatically better than the same scene rendered with extremely basic raster rendering techniques pictured beside it.
For that matter, any serious attempt at real time graphics using ray tracing will use the rays only casted from the camera position to render the scene and not global illumination. Such a renderer would also limit the number of reflections or refractions a ray could take, further reducing image quality. Reduction in the number of computations to a manageable size for a real time ray-tracing renderer would be the reason these would be done.
A similar quality real time rendering with most of the benefits of can be achieved with raster type rendering with secondary rays casted into translucent objects. This is more complicated for the programmer, but would have nearly the same visual quality, with much less math and at an acceptable frame rate using higher resolutions than ray-tracing could handle on similar hardware.
Perhaps I/O would be better, if the average PC had not started to use PCI Express? Throughput is nice, but so is low latency, as well as DMA operations for PCIe switches. I suppose lower latency in parallel PCI-X DDR 533 is why one would find PCI-X slots like those in use with IBM POWER6 systems. PCIe seems to me at least to have been forced down the throats of PC users regardless of its level of appropriateness, which we can than Intel and Rambus for. Many of the patents for PCIe signaling are held by Rambus. We PC users got screwed, again, by Rambus.
In any case, according to PLX, their best PCIe 1.1 switches have about 110ns of latency for devices without a non-transparent port and 150ns for those bridges with a non-transparent port. The latency for PLX PCIe bridges for PCIe 2.0 devices are in the 140ns range and those switches all have a non-transparent port. Non-transparent ports are essentially a fall back port for redundancy at the switch level so that the primary computer can fail, but an always on hot backup computer can seamlessly take over for it. This assumes you are using external PCIe expansion chassis with the required cables, none of which are cheap either, and are generally custom made. By all means, though, check the latency numbers at:
http://www.plxtech.com/
It seems to me, that when Intel hypes a new forthcoming CPU that it often fails to mention the poor performance of the chipset to be paired with that CPU. The CPU ends up using the newest and greatest process, but saddles the CPU with a process at least two process nodes back. Not surprisingly, when the CPU and processor are matched together, the performance is often atrocious, due to the low performance chipset. Intel also has bad habit of attempting to save silicon die area by just dropping portions from the chip. Another company making the same chip could never get away with dropping the portions that Intel does in their designs. Intel gets away with it though because it essentially has a monopoly on x86 chips and Intel sets their poor performance as the baseline for the industry. Basically, Intel no longer cares about anything else other than raking in the cash.
I look forward to seeing Microsoft and Intel ending up being broken up and no longer being a force in the computer industry. Intel and Microsoft have each acted so egregiously, that Antitrust charges are probably being worked on by government lawyers for both companies.
No, I just thought that pairing an Intel Atom processor with Windows Vista in any device that needs to be considered usable in some capacity was stupid. This device manages to violate and manage to fall even farther below whatever standards I originally had as to both the uselessness and stupidity present in both the Atom Processor and Windows Vista individually.
Combining these two products has actually made them both worth even less than the products would be separately. Using these components, this tablet is a product worth less after being assembled and thus these components would be worth more in their unassembled state in their original shipping containers.
For a roughly $3000 machine like this, and using the same suppliers there should be a ULV Core 2 Solo or Duo present and it should run Windows XP. I suppose a more intelligent decision for this device might involve an AMD Turion variant with an RS690M or RS780M chipset. The system originally mentioned in the review could never run Vista Buisiness at any better than speeds that would be measured in a geological timescale, like continental drift from plate tectonics. I suppose a Geforce 9300 chipset coupled with a Core 2 would also work. Choosing to run Linux might also be a good idea and using some sort of ARM processor might also help a fair amount in the sanity (and cost) department.
Nice try Intel, Microsoft and Panasonic, but this is still an epic fail. As currently designed, this is overkill in the OS category, and falls far short of what is required in the CPU category when the fact that Vista is considered. A device like this could be much smaller, cheaper, and even more rugged than this over-engineered piece of trash. The product line that these three jokers err... corporations might end up producing would disappear like iPod competitors when a more useful competing product came out, not that Apple would release a product like this.
Would Alpine (the descendant of Pine) be a good replacement for Outlook Express or Windows Mail, in your opinion as well? It might be harder to do damage to a Windows install with Alpine than with Outlook Express or Windows Mail. However, I should never underestimate the power of stupid Windows lusers, though.
I was looking at the page source for this story and found something a bit interesting. I was looking though the page source because I didn't know how to format a link in HTML properly. Which is a bit pathetic on my part, I know. This is the interesting Javascript code:
On this page it starts on line 21, when viewing the source. Anyone have an idea as to what the "nod" and "nix" terms refer to? The terms following "metanod and "metanix" appear to be the usual terms used in moderation of comments. However, I never remember the "nod" and "nix" terms ever being used for moderation. I have been unable to moderate since moderating the "Thread of Doom", but no changes like this have been made as far as I am aware of.
Would heavy I/O tasks, include the heavy use of the pagefile in a bottom of the line Intel system without enough physical RAM, running XP or Vista and from just about any major computer manufacturer? I wonder how long an MLC flash drive would last and what the write performance would be? Note: this applies to both laptops and desktops and the power savings between a hard drive and an SSD are fairly minimal.
Sure, drives with SLC flash have features that mitigate some of the issues that MLC flash has, however, if you expect that SSD price per GB and total capacity to overtake hard drives anytime soon, you are in for a bit of a disappointment. Hard drive manufacturers are doing their best to increase storage on mechanical drives and hard drives have plenty of ways available to increase their storage capacity.
Yeah, having a homeland and wanting to leave peacefully in it as a majority population with a state of our own, that is one racist and vicious ideology held by those Israelis...
Well, you did say this, and while I did quote you out of context, it is a bit racist to assume that you have the right to appropriate the land due to what happened 1800 years ago to the followers of a religion that you identify with, but you are not closely related to. If think you have the right to retake the same or a greater amount of land that these ancient religious followers lived on according to historical records. An aggravating fact in this case is that past as well as current means that were used violated international norms and standards regardless of the time they occurred in order to appropriate the land. If the government that you impose is an explicitly and extensively theocratic state with a thin veneer of democracy. Then yes, all of these would indicate that you are racist.
The OBD (OnBoard Diagnostics) system on my 1996 Honda Odyssey "Minivan" had its "Engine Misfire" sensor intentionally disabled, which caused the emissions released to violate EPA standards. The EPA sued Honda, and both came to an agreement that gave owners free replacement of the defective components under a "warranty extension". The lawsuit was settled back in 1998, however. Seriously, did you think the same thing would have happened at any time recently under Cheney err, W?
Then there is also the Apple Powerbook 5300 series that had a seven year "warranty extension". The 5300 series were awful, in both quality, durability, and performance. If you didn't get one of the first laptops in the 5300 series, you missed out on the self-igniting Lithium-ion batteries. Later 5300 series owners, still had to deal with power jacks that liked to fail by separating from the motherboard or the magic screen hinges that could close unexpectedly on one's hand at any moment, among other problems. On other machines from 1995 and 1996, Apple had "warranty extensions" to fix problems that impaired the computer's use, but that were not of any danger or that affected actual functionality.
While this Zune problem is serious, a patch should be issued if possible, or a free replacement/upgrade program should be offered to owners.
Disclosure: I do not own a Zune of the model in question, much less any Zune. I own a 60GB 5G iPod, the only Turing-complete Apple branded device I own. I would hope that Apple would do the same if such a flaw was present in my iPod even at this date.
I don't know how the grandparent poster expected the diesel fuel for the generator to be stored. Above ground in freezing temperatures diesel is useless. I'm not sure I want to know what the costs to use an underground epoxy coated tank are exactly. However, there are government permits, installation costs, and the cost of the tank itself to consider. I am going to guess that the hassle and cost of any underground tank, diesel, gasoline, or LP would all be high, and not worth the trouble.
Still, those costs would be lower than the final cost of having a large underground plume of diesel below your property and under your neighbor's property too. Bonus points if you or your neighbors end up with drinking water wells contaminated with diesel on property. This would almost certainly be the result of the low initial costs of improperly installing and improperly maintaining an underground storage tank.
For the submitter of the story, I would use local sources of information to determine what climate appropriate steps to take for your home when the power goes out again. In a suburban, residential situation I would not expect another power outage of this length for another 20 years. In the 25 years my parents have lived in their home in the suburbs, there was one power outage in January 1996 that lasted four days. There was no damage to the water pipes, however several plants were frozen and killed in below zero Fahrenheit weather. Other than that there have been no memorable power outages lasting longer than three hours.
Not every task a computer might perform takes as much CPU time or can be parallelized into another CPU as easily as one might like.
To use a liquid combustion vehicular analogy, ten school buses can travel ten miles each. If the distance traveled in these school buses is added together the total distance of travel would be 100 miles. Also, in a different situation one school bus alone can travel 100 miles.
In both cases, the same number of total miles have been traveled. However, in the situation where these school buses must pick up area students for another school day. Each school bus would drive their own route. Obviously, this would be done to cover the entire area the school serves. This is obviously more effective, and faster, than having one bus drive all 100 miles of a single route on its own.
On the other hand, ten school buses traveling ten miles each won't help a single bit if only one school bus needs to transport only one bus load of students to another city 100 miles away say for an overnight school outing of some sort.
In the first case, using ten school buses makes sense, this is analogous to a situation where a using threads on a multi-core CPU would be faster. However, in a situation similar to the second, multiple processors would not help speed up a task a bit, these tasks would just need to be done in serial. In any case, most tasks a modern computer might need to do fall in between each extreme. My point is, don't expect miracles just from the presence of more cores on your CPU. Also, not all serial tasks are easy to make parallel, especially when many are difficult to program with available thread APIs. Debugging is even harder when multiple data transactions occur between the threads. I'm not sure how easy it is to debug C++ currently, but I remember gdb was nearly useless back in 2000. For that matter, programming in a concurrent manner, in C or even C++, is not taught in colleges very much. I'm not even sure how much C and C++ are taught in the first place. From what I know using C is still probably easier to program, produces faster code, and easier to debug when using threads, but is C even taught at all in Computer Science courses these days?