Are you referring to processing power, or computer resources? Cause I would think the IRS and Social Security both have a crapload more stuff than the DoE..
I have a friend that is so disgusted with our government that he now votes against every incumbent that comes up for reelection Perhaps if we all took to this strategy, we could eventually rid ourselves of this scum that has fubar'd the country
I have been voting with this strategy since about 2000 or so.. Vote out any incumbent, and if possible, vote for anyone that doesn't have a D or R next to their name.. Heck, even the wackos at some of the weird political parties at least stick to their beliefs..
I don't know where you live, but where I grew up, 14 and 15 year olds were not hired by McDonalds.. Maybe it was just my states weird laws about not letting kids work near stoves, grills, vats of boiling oil, etc... However, I did work at one when I was 16..
What do you think any war of the last few decades have been? In iraq, they have old AK's, and RPGs.. We have Strykers, predators, and almost million dollar Humvees that they blow up with a few dollars of explosives and a discarded cell phone.
You laugh. I have 600kb/s wireless access in my rural neighborhood. Hulu is a matter of hit pause, let it buffer for a few min, then play, and hope the signal doesn't go down while watching (hulu seems to stop playing if your internet connection goes down, even if there is still stuff in its buffer)
Did I mention I live 6 miles outside a large capital city with about 200,000 people?
cmon now.. Give him the benefit of the doubt.. Maybe, just maybe he's a drag racer, and needs to be able to "power brake" his car... (put the brakes on full, and give it about half throttle, just before the wheels start spinning, to get the turbo spooled up to a high RPM.)
Of course, then he would probably not be in a toyota, or if he were, he would re-chip the darn thing.. and lots of other tweaks.
Really, powerbraking is the only thing I can think of that this fix would break.
Loser.. I am a "secret" Illegitimate child of the owner of the Dallas Cowboys.. I play halo on their 70 yard wide screen.. Daddy makes Tony Romo play me, and makes it clear he better let me win...:)
Actually, in California, the rebates for alternative energy can be up to half of the product cost. In fact, I think that 60 min video said that, so $400,000 each thats a $15 year payback, assuming energy prices stay exactly the same.
Cisco Wireless (used to be airespace) and other wireless management controllers have had the ability to detect rouge networks for at least 5 years. If they see a rouge, they can attempt to use the nearest AP to connect, and see if the packets can route back to your network. (Showing you if someone plugged a linksys router into your building's wired network, or if the business next door just got wireless)
The Airespace controller even had a "feature" that was heavily discourgaed that would basically take a few of the nearest AP's, and bombard the rouge with packets and DDOS it. I think that the more advanced ones had the ability to use 802.1x features to shut down the network port that the rouge was going through, if I am not mistaken, but I didn't have a model that could do that.
Your not understanding.. All high def has to be encrypted. Which means pretty much any home theater stereo system (minus a few very, very high end ones) will no longer work with encrypted HDMI. I have my DVD player, and Boxee box outputting HDMI to the reciever. It strips the digital audio out of the system, and then passes the video on to the TV.
If they start doing AACS, and forcing encryption over HDMI, then if I buy a new component that meets the new standard; I either need to buy a very expensive receiver, or just watch video's in my room with the wonderful craptacular speakers built into my TV.
It is hard to say if it makes them look stupid or hypocritical, without knowing the punishment for losing your gun. Apparently, since one officer at least recovered his from a gang member, it is not termination of employment.
Others have slightly different styles and conventions, and ways of solving problems. Working on something like a large open source project could teach you about working on a team, where one person can't "own" a whole part of a program. (And cleaning up others code will greatly help you learn about documenting and formatting your own code.) One good team assignment we got, Each person work on a part of a program. Away from computers, we had to, on a whiteboard or whatever, decide inputs and outputs, etc between parts, then code separately. Grade on that assignment was how well the program behaved when the teacher, in front of the class, compiled the separate parts, and ran it for the first time combined.
I used to work at a college. You would be scared to meet the parents of the kids enrolling there. you'd think little johnny was 12, not 19. Hell, most 18 year olds aren't mature enough, but you know what, eventually, they become that way, or they drop out. Not everybody gets to be an astronaut when they grow up (I say as I look at my demotivational poster)
I started college at 16 part time, found things like WRI121 incredibly easy, compared to AP English, which would have gotten me the same credits.. In fact, by the time I graduated high school, I had enough credits to get to other schools Transfer requirements, which are often much different than admissions requirements.
But damn. At 17, my grandpa and his buddies lied about their ages so they could fight in a war. And now, we can't have kids in classes with people a few years older then them? Boy do I feel alot older than I am.. I'm starting to sound like my Grandpa.
Your looking at it wrong... They are just Telescreens, 1984 was just a bit optimistic of an implementation date. Don't talk about big brother at home, you never know when the Telescreen is watching...
Ha.. There is a uranium mine in Oregon.. Its been basically shut down for several years, but just outside of Lakeview, in southern Oregon, there is one..
I thought that was interesting too.. China just bought a bunch of Westinghouse AP1000's, and they didn't have sites already prepared, and they are paying much, much less.
Power is finite and needs to be generated on-demand from (usually) consumable resources. Bandwidth doesn't fall in the the same category.
For fibre, if you have something that's sitting around idle, you're "wasting" (say) 1 Gb/s of bandwidth each second that it's not lit up.
Same could be said for my 200AMP service, when I'm only using 50 amps.
On the other hand, if you're not using power, that means the generation companies aren't burning coal/gas/uranium. You don't use, they don't use. But an ISP, if you don't use... their plant is still running.
How often do they power down dams and nuclear reactors near you? Those, along with coal, are base-load, and almost always run.
Basically, what you are alluding to, I think, is that with electricity, the power is finite, and the delivery mechanism is the cheap part.
My argument is that bandwidth is the same, but backwards, the bandwidth is relatively infinite, but the delivery mechanism is the expensive part. (fiber to your house or node, uplink bandwidth, etc) Your electric system (or at least many) even allow you to choose the "source" for the other side of the connection, even if its not really those same currents coming directly to your door. Why do we continue to purchase these in bundles? I would pay less, even when I watch things like Hulu.com, then my neighbor, who has kids who love to torrent every TV show, ever made. I am also taxing the system less as well.
It sure would be nice if you could only buy a data plan. Unfortunately, any I have seen seem to also want you to pay a minimum of $40/month for voice before they will connect you.. And then again, they seem think that SMS messages are neither Voice, nor Data... The only exception have been air-cards for devices, like the MiFi, but they seem to have much more expensive data plans, and don't pretend to call them unlimited.
Um, the parent was asking why its okay to tax people on gross income, but not companies? Either I should be taxed on Profit too, Or a company should be taxed on Gross income. Cause its just as easy to invent all sorts of crap to never have a profit. Go Google Hollywood accounting.
I mean with my income, I have to purchase a ton of expenses that eat at the total too. I have rent, food, medical care, etc. Just like Boeing has to pay for expenses to assemble their big shiny planes! And you can't get away with the "Well, they hire people and then they pay taxes" argument, cause I give income to the Landlord. I give income to Blue Cross, I provide income to farmers, sales clerks, hell, even the lady that cuts my hair. The economy is a network of economic networks..
but I guess its easier to insult their (the GP's) intelligence in the matter. Hooray, you took basic Economics in High School
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So Google with their Over 70% market share is anti-competitive, said a representative at a company with >90% market share in desktops.
Not to mention, one has taken steps to suppress competitors, the other has not.
Are you referring to processing power, or computer resources? Cause I would think the IRS and Social Security both have a crapload more stuff than the DoE..
I have a friend that is so disgusted with our government that he now votes against every incumbent that comes up for reelection
Perhaps if we all took to this strategy, we could eventually rid ourselves of this scum that has fubar'd the country
I have been voting with this strategy since about 2000 or so.. Vote out any incumbent, and if possible, vote for anyone that doesn't have a D or R next to their name.. Heck, even the wackos at some of the weird political parties at least stick to their beliefs..
I don't know where you live, but where I grew up, 14 and 15 year olds were not hired by McDonalds.. Maybe it was just my states weird laws about not letting kids work near stoves, grills, vats of boiling oil, etc... However, I did work at one when I was 16..
What do you think any war of the last few decades have been? In iraq, they have old AK's, and RPGs.. We have Strykers, predators, and almost million dollar Humvees that they blow up with a few dollars of explosives and a discarded cell phone.
You laugh. I have 600kb/s wireless access in my rural neighborhood. Hulu is a matter of hit pause, let it buffer for a few min, then play, and hope the signal doesn't go down while watching (hulu seems to stop playing if your internet connection goes down, even if there is still stuff in its buffer)
Did I mention I live 6 miles outside a large capital city with about 200,000 people?
cmon now.. Give him the benefit of the doubt.. Maybe, just maybe he's a drag racer, and needs to be able to "power brake" his car... (put the brakes on full, and give it about half throttle, just before the wheels start spinning, to get the turbo spooled up to a high RPM.)
Of course, then he would probably not be in a toyota, or if he were, he would re-chip the darn thing.. and lots of other tweaks.
Really, powerbraking is the only thing I can think of that this fix would break.
Loser.. I am a "secret" Illegitimate child of the owner of the Dallas Cowboys.. I play halo on their 70 yard wide screen.. Daddy makes Tony Romo play me, and makes it clear he better let me win... :)
Do you think he knows about the radiation risks of solar? I mean, that is studied, and proven to cause skin cancer!
Actually, in California, the rebates for alternative energy can be up to half of the product cost. In fact, I think that 60 min video said that, so $400,000 each thats a $15 year payback, assuming energy prices stay exactly the same.
Cisco Wireless (used to be airespace) and other wireless management controllers have had the ability to detect rouge networks for at least 5 years. If they see a rouge, they can attempt to use the nearest AP to connect, and see if the packets can route back to your network. (Showing you if someone plugged a linksys router into your building's wired network, or if the business next door just got wireless)
The Airespace controller even had a "feature" that was heavily discourgaed that would basically take a few of the nearest AP's, and bombard the rouge with packets and DDOS it. I think that the more advanced ones had the ability to use 802.1x features to shut down the network port that the rouge was going through, if I am not mistaken, but I didn't have a model that could do that.
Your not understanding.. All high def has to be encrypted. Which means pretty much any home theater stereo system (minus a few very, very high end ones) will no longer work with encrypted HDMI. I have my DVD player, and Boxee box outputting HDMI to the reciever. It strips the digital audio out of the system, and then passes the video on to the TV.
If they start doing AACS, and forcing encryption over HDMI, then if I buy a new component that meets the new standard; I either need to buy a very expensive receiver, or just watch video's in my room with the wonderful craptacular speakers built into my TV.
It is hard to say if it makes them look stupid or hypocritical, without knowing the punishment for losing your gun. Apparently, since one officer at least recovered his from a gang member, it is not termination of employment.
No, I'm not being a smart ass.
Others have slightly different styles and conventions, and ways of solving problems. Working on something like a large open source project could teach you about working on a team, where one person can't "own" a whole part of a program. (And cleaning up others code will greatly help you learn about documenting and formatting your own code.) One good team assignment we got, Each person work on a part of a program. Away from computers, we had to, on a whiteboard or whatever, decide inputs and outputs, etc between parts, then code separately. Grade on that assignment was how well the program behaved when the teacher, in front of the class, compiled the separate parts, and ran it for the first time combined.
I used to work at a college. You would be scared to meet the parents of the kids enrolling there. you'd think little johnny was 12, not 19. Hell, most 18 year olds aren't mature enough, but you know what, eventually, they become that way, or they drop out. Not everybody gets to be an astronaut when they grow up (I say as I look at my demotivational poster)
I started college at 16 part time, found things like WRI121 incredibly easy, compared to AP English, which would have gotten me the same credits.. In fact, by the time I graduated high school, I had enough credits to get to other schools Transfer requirements, which are often much different than admissions requirements.
But damn. At 17, my grandpa and his buddies lied about their ages so they could fight in a war. And now, we can't have kids in classes with people a few years older then them? Boy do I feel alot older than I am.. I'm starting to sound like my Grandpa.
Your looking at it wrong...
They are just Telescreens, 1984 was just a bit optimistic of an implementation date. Don't talk about big brother at home, you never know when the Telescreen is watching...
You are right.. But how much power does it use if you have to spin the HD and seek to your data compared to using electricity for ram cache
Ha.. There is a uranium mine in Oregon.. Its been basically shut down for several years, but just outside of Lakeview, in southern Oregon, there is one..
I thought that was interesting too.. China just bought a bunch of Westinghouse AP1000's, and they didn't have sites already prepared, and they are paying much, much less.
First Article I read said AP1000 reactors.
Also, this is going in at a site of 2 other reactors, so there will be alot less NIMBYism than if it was a new location.
EEEK.. here, clip a corner from my Geek Card.. thanks!
Power is finite and needs to be generated on-demand from (usually) consumable resources. Bandwidth doesn't fall in the the same category.
For fibre, if you have something that's sitting around idle, you're "wasting" (say) 1 Gb/s of bandwidth each second that it's not lit up.
Same could be said for my 200AMP service, when I'm only using 50 amps.
On the other hand, if you're not using power, that means the generation companies aren't burning coal/gas/uranium. You don't use, they don't use. But an ISP, if you don't use... their plant is still running.
How often do they power down dams and nuclear reactors near you? Those, along with coal, are base-load, and almost always run.
Basically, what you are alluding to, I think, is that with electricity, the power is finite, and the delivery mechanism is the cheap part.
My argument is that bandwidth is the same, but backwards, the bandwidth is relatively infinite, but the delivery mechanism is the expensive part. (fiber to your house or node, uplink bandwidth, etc) Your electric system (or at least many) even allow you to choose the "source" for the other side of the connection, even if its not really those same currents coming directly to your door. Why do we continue to purchase these in bundles? I would pay less, even when I watch things like Hulu.com, then my neighbor, who has kids who love to torrent every TV show, ever made. I am also taxing the system less as well.
It sure would be nice if you could only buy a data plan. Unfortunately, any I have seen seem to also want you to pay a minimum of $40/month for voice before they will connect you.. And then again, they seem think that SMS messages are neither Voice, nor Data... The only exception have been air-cards for devices, like the MiFi, but they seem to have much more expensive data plans, and don't pretend to call them unlimited.
Thats just as horrible as electric utilities making you pay per Killowatt/hour of power.
Honestly.. I would prefer a $X per Giga or Megabyte over $x for unlimited*
*Where we define unlimited, who gets throttled when and can cut you off for exceeding any internal threshold that we will not tell you about.
Seriously.. If I am curious about my power usage, I can walk outside, look at the meter, and figure out pretty close to what I owe.
Um, the parent was asking why its okay to tax people on gross income, but not companies? Either I should be taxed on Profit too, Or a company should be taxed on Gross income. Cause its just as easy to invent all sorts of crap to never have a profit. Go Google Hollywood accounting.
I mean with my income, I have to purchase a ton of expenses that eat at the total too. I have rent, food, medical care, etc. Just like Boeing has to pay for expenses to assemble their big shiny planes! And you can't get away with the "Well, they hire people and then they pay taxes" argument, cause I give income to the Landlord. I give income to Blue Cross, I provide income to farmers, sales clerks, hell, even the lady that cuts my hair. The economy is a network of economic networks..
but I guess its easier to insult their (the GP's) intelligence in the matter. Hooray, you took basic Economics in High School