I have a problem with their math. I told them I live in a multi-story apartment building, less than 500 square feet. I use energy saving lightbulbs. They didn't ask, but I have no AC. My electric and gas, even at summer rates is completely rock bottom. They say I use 4.5 acres to support my shelter alone, and that there are only 4 acres of useful land per person. What the fuck are they smoking? How come we're not dead already, then? And what the fuck do they gain by trying to make me feel guilty for living like a hot sweaty mouse in a hole in the wall? Oh, right. They want a frigging donation.
Good for them.
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Supplies don't? Well, you're right to some extent, but in other ways, totally wrong. Food, for instance. The food supply increases as technology allows growing more food per acre, and as it allows fewer people to grow more of it, even in less than ideal soil. Technology also brings electricity from the atom. There is also solar, wind, wave, and nearly uncountable other ways of generating electricity, with which you can do anything - especially loose hydrogen and oxygen from water to fill your fuel cell, and make breathable air.
Honestly, with only 1/3 of the earth land, and even less than that actually habitable, I think the first thing we'd run out of given enough technological innovation is a place to stand.
What will happen will be this - eventually we will run out of oil... rather - the cost of getting more oil out of the earth will outweigh the value of the barrel of oil you could extract. I hope fervently for this day, since while everyone equates this with disaster, this will solve the vast majority of our problems. This will stop the pollution that makes me wheeze. Nuclear waste is amazingly insignificant when compared with burning coal and oil. Just build a big lead thing, deposit the (amazingly, amazingly small) 30,000 tons/year, and keep it around for a thousand years, by which I'm sure some bright boy will have developed a way to use electricity to power am effecient railgun, and fire it off into space a bit at a time. Then just keep on keeping on until we either run out of room to stand, or run out of material to power a nuclear power plant. By that time (upsettingly far in the future) well, someone else can come up with another damn idea.;p
God, it's like, 95F in the shade in NYC. I wish like hell it was global cooling. That ice age coming in 2050 sounds a hell of a lot better than sweating to death. Glaciers move slow enough for me to get out of the way. =(
This is why you make a handle that doesn't have your LAST NAME in it. And dear lord, if you do that, then post to slashdot about getting abusive e-mail... oh dear.
Hint for newbies: make sure your slightly better handle has a nice english word in it. That way it turns up a ka-zillion hits in a google search, and discourages casual identification.
Of course, I bet I'm just tempting fate now, aren't I? First person to call me at home gets a cookie.;p
If you really insist, I'll slam-dunk you with a nice bit of research.
First, when I want to quote Census Bureau records, I actually go to the Census Bureau, which his link does not.
From there, I would ask that you scroll down a bit, and look at the number in the column that represents female, total, all races, percent. What number do you find there? To save you the excercise, I'll put it here for you: 12.5%.
The number from the poorly named "great"-grandparent quote is 24%. This warped number is for African-American females. It is a sad number, and says untold volumes about remaining racial problems in this country, but there is little to gain by distorting facts completely by claiming that 24% of ALL American women live in poverty.
See, the reason myself and that other guy were making fun of this clown is because he claimed: Sounds like America in 10 years time - if you disagree, you're not a patriot... Did you know our poverty rate was currently at around 14%, with 25% of all women living below the poverty line? Anyone with the ability to think, and do simple math can see that this cannot possibly be true, since there are roughly the same number of men as women, and this would then mean that only 4% of men were below the poverty line. There were classes in school to get you to avoid obvious mistakes like this, called critical thinking. For the record, 10% of men are below the poverty line, more than double what Textbook Error would have you believe.
Also please note, that the quoter of these claims is a troll. A brief look into his posting history should make that clear. As for jcpr.org, and their erronious faq, I have no idea what got into them. Perhaps we should write them a nice little note. Also, the total poverty rate is under 12%, a notable difference from 14%, but jcpr is quoting from 1997 records. For the record, they are one of the groups that I must conclude has an "agenda".
I'm sorry if I was a little harsh on you, but I feel you were needlessly sarcastic. You're probably a very nice person, though, and thought I was being overly mean to the poor troll. If it helps, just remember - 74% of statistics are completely made up.;)
Well, if you're in the buisiness of making up statistics, you could consider every housewife below the poverty line since they have no direct 'income'. Of course, things like this are only useful if you're trying to use your 'statistics' to further an agenda.
Well, I dunno about Bruce, and his practices, but I for one, feel all sorts of comfortable calling anything that violates conservation of mass or energy fake.
Am I the only one who might think that a field of well, windmills, more or less, might actually not be the worst thing in the world to look at? Heck, if anyone wants to put one of those, or a nice radio telescope array right next to me, go right ahead.
"By then?" I didn't know their market share was increasing. I would have thought that it would be decreasing, due to poor performance overseas relative to the other consoles, but I confess I have seen no hard numbers.
Well, remember they're new players in this market. Anything above 0% for them is an "increase". =)
Well, you could get your Tivo to record Svideo, albeit painfully. Just get converter from Svideo to RF, set it to channel 3, get a Y joint, and make it a second input to your Tivo's RF. That'll "work", but somehow I doubt you'd be happy with the results. =)
Not only does Tivo have a model relationship with hackers, but this is despite the fact that hackers do sometimes cost them money. How? I'll explain:
It's not that the people who hack (finally, proper usage of the word) their Tivo to get more space are competing with any upgrade plan of Tivo's, because they don't have one. But what happens frequently is this - when you're upgrading the disks, if you're smart, you make a backup. The upgrade then goes successfully, and you've swapped out 30 hours of space on a single drive, to say, 120 hours of space on two drives. Then a software upgrade comes along, of which Tivo has had several. Then one of your disks may fail, programs start skipping, or the Tivo starts freezing. So you go back to backup.
You have to download the software again.
I'm sure I'll get flamed to hell and back, but Tivo has a deal with UUnet (though they may have gone out of business, or bought?) to provide local POP's for Tivo's to dial into. Tivo then pays for the time you use. Program data is tiny. Software updates, (over mostly 33.6) is a long time, and costs them money. But to my experience, and yeah, this happened to me, they've been nothing but agreeable, and I had to download 2.5 actually 3 times - once for the actual upgrade, once for the situation above, and uh... the third time because I screwed up, I admit it. I even called tech support, because my machine didn't want to upgrade the third time, and they actually re-flagged me for download, and told me to get it right this time. =)
Anyway, it weighs 25% more than the ipod. Cost more, smaller screen, and thanks to the laws of physics, whichever diety you identify with is pretty much the one who says that the tiny bit of power provided by USB 2.0 won't charge the unit until judgement day.
So, Toshiba pretty much managed to come eight months late to the party with an inferior product. I only wish I could be a fanboy like you and cheer them on.
Oh yeah, and I'm done responding to you. You couldn't argue your way out a speeding ticket if you were a hot chick.
I haven't seen many unpowered firewire ports at all, even on PC's. The Creative Labs Audigy has a powered firewire port, and a powered firewire PCI card is literally $25 from CompUSA, and everything else on the shelf is powered. Either something really odd is happening, or unpowered firewire is actually pretty rare.
Oh, wait. We just read a product bragging page, and they didn't spend even a single line talking about their great battery life. What do you think that means, champ?
I'd say that Apple definitely has the advantage here because:
1) The Ipod is smaller, lighter, and has a bigger screen. 2) The battery is a Lithium Polymer, which can support playback of up to 13 hours, by some user reports, while this hunk of junk may very well use AA's. 3) It costs, oddly enough, $10 more, even though Toshiba makes the hard disc, and it has *ahem* a smaller screen. 4) The backlight can't be nearly as good. 5) USB 2.0 can't power the unit, while firewire can, so I never have to bring an AC adaptor *anywhere*.
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Hm. Okay, granted. M&M's are shaped like flying saucers, but they'll stop eventually. What if there was rotational acceleration on the capsule? Like, if they were trying to increase the "gravity" or decrease, and the helix was set up not rotating? I'm starting to get too tired to think properly in 3d.;p
Wasn't it something like melts in your mouth, not in your helix in outer space?
Actually, IIRC, I walked out on Mission to Mars when this woman was trying to jetpack over to this guy who was drifting slowly out into space, and let him die because she had used up half! her fuel. She was gaining on him, but of course, objects in motion (in this case, an ignorant astronaut) somehow... stayed... slowing down rapidly in outer space once she cut those jets off.
Sigh. That really annoyed me to the point where I couldn't possibly avoid yelling in a theater, which gets the men in the white coats after you.
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Obligitory Hackers Diet reference.
Still the king, baby. Common sense, and a lot less trendy crap, and a whole lot more suck it up and deal mentality.
I have a problem with their math. I told them I live in a multi-story apartment building, less than 500 square feet. I use energy saving lightbulbs. They didn't ask, but I have no AC. My electric and gas, even at summer rates is completely rock bottom. They say I use 4.5 acres to support my shelter alone, and that there are only 4 acres of useful land per person. What the fuck are they smoking? How come we're not dead already, then? And what the fuck do they gain by trying to make me feel guilty for living like a hot sweaty mouse in a hole in the wall? Oh, right. They want a frigging donation.
Good for them.
Supplies don't? Well, you're right to some extent, but in other ways, totally wrong. Food, for instance. The food supply increases as technology allows growing more food per acre, and as it allows fewer people to grow more of it, even in less than ideal soil. Technology also brings electricity from the atom. There is also solar, wind, wave, and nearly uncountable other ways of generating electricity, with which you can do anything - especially loose hydrogen and oxygen from water to fill your fuel cell, and make breathable air.
;p
Honestly, with only 1/3 of the earth land, and even less than that actually habitable, I think the first thing we'd run out of given enough technological innovation is a place to stand.
What will happen will be this - eventually we will run out of oil... rather - the cost of getting more oil out of the earth will outweigh the value of the barrel of oil you could extract. I hope fervently for this day, since while everyone equates this with disaster, this will solve the vast majority of our problems. This will stop the pollution that makes me wheeze. Nuclear waste is amazingly insignificant when compared with burning coal and oil. Just build a big lead thing, deposit the (amazingly, amazingly small) 30,000 tons/year, and keep it around for a thousand years, by which I'm sure some bright boy will have developed a way to use electricity to power am effecient railgun, and fire it off into space a bit at a time. Then just keep on keeping on until we either run out of room to stand, or run out of material to power a nuclear power plant. By that time (upsettingly far in the future) well, someone else can come up with another damn idea.
God, it's like, 95F in the shade in NYC. I wish like hell it was global cooling. That ice age coming in 2050 sounds a hell of a lot better than sweating to death. Glaciers move slow enough for me to get out of the way. =(
This is why you make a handle that doesn't have your LAST NAME in it. And dear lord, if you do that, then post to slashdot about getting abusive e-mail... oh dear.
;p
Hint for newbies: make sure your slightly better handle has a nice english word in it. That way it turns up a ka-zillion hits in a google search, and discourages casual identification.
Of course, I bet I'm just tempting fate now, aren't I? First person to call me at home gets a cookie.
Tang: 1957. Good call.
Tang. Yum.
If you really insist, I'll slam-dunk you with a nice bit of research.
;)
First, when I want to quote Census Bureau records, I actually go to the Census Bureau, which his link does not.
From there, I would ask that you scroll down a bit, and look at the number in the column that represents female, total, all races, percent. What number do you find there? To save you the excercise, I'll put it here for you: 12.5%.
The number from the poorly named "great"-grandparent quote is 24%. This warped number is for African-American females. It is a sad number, and says untold volumes about remaining racial problems in this country, but there is little to gain by distorting facts completely by claiming that 24% of ALL American women live in poverty.
See, the reason myself and that other guy were making fun of this clown is because he claimed: Sounds like America in 10 years time - if you disagree, you're not a patriot... Did you know our poverty rate was currently at around 14%, with 25% of all women living below the poverty line? Anyone with the ability to think, and do simple math can see that this cannot possibly be true, since there are roughly the same number of men as women, and this would then mean that only 4% of men were below the poverty line. There were classes in school to get you to avoid obvious mistakes like this, called critical thinking. For the record, 10% of men are below the poverty line, more than double what Textbook Error would have you believe.
Also please note, that the quoter of these claims is a troll. A brief look into his posting history should make that clear. As for jcpr.org, and their erronious faq, I have no idea what got into them. Perhaps we should write them a nice little note. Also, the total poverty rate is under 12%, a notable difference from 14%, but jcpr is quoting from 1997 records. For the record, they are one of the groups that I must conclude has an "agenda".
I'm sorry if I was a little harsh on you, but I feel you were needlessly sarcastic. You're probably a very nice person, though, and thought I was being overly mean to the poor troll. If it helps, just remember - 74% of statistics are completely made up.
Well, if you're in the buisiness of making up statistics, you could consider every housewife below the poverty line since they have no direct 'income'. Of course, things like this are only useful if you're trying to use your 'statistics' to further an agenda.
Wheeeee!
Well, I dunno about Bruce, and his practices, but I for one, feel all sorts of comfortable calling anything that violates conservation of mass or energy fake.
Am I the only one who might think that a field of well, windmills, more or less, might actually not be the worst thing in the world to look at? Heck, if anyone wants to put one of those, or a nice radio telescope array right next to me, go right ahead.
*sigh*
You dumbass little troll. You want choice?
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"By then?" I didn't know their market share was increasing. I would have thought that it would be decreasing, due to poor performance overseas relative to the other consoles, but I confess I have seen no hard numbers.
Well, remember they're new players in this market. Anything above 0% for them is an "increase". =)
Well, you could get your Tivo to record Svideo, albeit painfully. Just get converter from Svideo to RF, set it to channel 3, get a Y joint, and make it a second input to your Tivo's RF. That'll "work", but somehow I doubt you'd be happy with the results. =)
Oh, hell, I'll bite. How about a 32x12x40 burner for $49 US with free shipping?
I hope that comment sufficed.
Not only does Tivo have a model relationship with hackers, but this is despite the fact that hackers do sometimes cost them money. How? I'll explain:
It's not that the people who hack (finally, proper usage of the word) their Tivo to get more space are competing with any upgrade plan of Tivo's, because they don't have one. But what happens frequently is this - when you're upgrading the disks, if you're smart, you make a backup. The upgrade then goes successfully, and you've swapped out 30 hours of space on a single drive, to say, 120 hours of space on two drives. Then a software upgrade comes along, of which Tivo has had several. Then one of your disks may fail, programs start skipping, or the Tivo starts freezing. So you go back to backup.
You have to download the software again.
I'm sure I'll get flamed to hell and back, but Tivo has a deal with UUnet (though they may have gone out of business, or bought?) to provide local POP's for Tivo's to dial into. Tivo then pays for the time you use. Program data is tiny. Software updates, (over mostly 33.6) is a long time, and costs them money. But to my experience, and yeah, this happened to me, they've been nothing but agreeable, and I had to download 2.5 actually 3 times - once for the actual upgrade, once for the situation above, and uh... the third time because I screwed up, I admit it. I even called tech support, because my machine didn't want to upgrade the third time, and they actually re-flagged me for download, and told me to get it right this time. =)
Mmmm... hot buttered troll.
Anyway, it weighs 25% more than the ipod. Cost more, smaller screen, and thanks to the laws of physics, whichever diety you identify with is pretty much the one who says that the tiny bit of power provided by USB 2.0 won't charge the unit until judgement day.
So, Toshiba pretty much managed to come eight months late to the party with an inferior product. I only wish I could be a fanboy like you and cheer them on.
Oh yeah, and I'm done responding to you. You couldn't argue your way out a speeding ticket if you were a hot chick.
I haven't seen many unpowered firewire ports at all, even on PC's. The Creative Labs Audigy has a powered firewire port, and a powered firewire PCI card is literally $25 from CompUSA, and everything else on the shelf is powered. Either something really odd is happening, or unpowered firewire is actually pretty rare.
You mean like 1, 3, and 5, genius?
Oh, wait. We just read a product bragging page, and they didn't spend even a single line talking about their great battery life. What do you think that means, champ?
*yawn*
I'd say that Apple definitely has the advantage here because:
1) The Ipod is smaller, lighter, and has a bigger screen.
2) The battery is a Lithium Polymer, which can support playback of up to 13 hours, by some user reports, while this hunk of junk may very well use AA's.
3) It costs, oddly enough, $10 more, even though Toshiba makes the hard disc, and it has *ahem* a smaller screen.
4) The backlight can't be nearly as good.
5) USB 2.0 can't power the unit, while firewire can, so I never have to bring an AC adaptor *anywhere*.
I think that you maybe didn't read the article?
I think that was my whole point. ;)
Which one did you pick?
Hm. Okay, granted. M&M's are shaped like flying saucers, but they'll stop eventually. What if there was rotational acceleration on the capsule? Like, if they were trying to increase the "gravity" or decrease, and the helix was set up not rotating? I'm starting to get too tired to think properly in 3d. ;p
*yawn*
That really was just the most depressing, boring rant ever. =)
Wasn't it something like melts in your mouth, not in your helix in outer space?
Actually, IIRC, I walked out on Mission to Mars when this woman was trying to jetpack over to this guy who was drifting slowly out into space, and let him die because she had used up half! her fuel. She was gaining on him, but of course, objects in motion (in this case, an ignorant astronaut) somehow... stayed... slowing down rapidly in outer space once she cut those jets off.
Sigh. That really annoyed me to the point where I couldn't possibly avoid yelling in a theater, which gets the men in the white coats after you.