So it's somehow more "civilized" to have, in place of a toilet, a robot programmed to attack you unless you know the cryptic key sequence to deactivate it? Take your bizarre robot fetish back to 4chan.
Me, I like Daylight Savings Time, because it will allow me to sit out on the porch in May listening to the Blackhawks game and still have enough light to read.
C'mon, this is easy: the way to eliminate DST is to effectively keep it forever. Timezones can decide to be "sun rises and sets at 7 on the Equinox" just as easily as 6. It's just an arbitrarily chosen number: choose a pleasing one.
Also, you've admitted you follow sportsball, so GTFO/. and never come back. Outsider!
Yes, which is why the way to eliminate DST is to effectively keep it forever. Timezones can decide to be "sun rises and sets at 7 on the Equinox" just as easily as 6. It's just an arbitrarily chosen number: choose a pleasing one.
Small government Republicans exist, here and there, but are hardly the establishment. Trump seems intent on reducing the scope of government though. Actions need to follow words, but he might actually make some government departments smaller for once. Wouldn't that be shocking.
To be fair (to the US, not Hillary), Hillary did effectively lose her job and prospects of future employment over the email scandal and the dirt she was hiding in general. Hillary Clinton will never be president of the United States.
It's illegal to corner the market in gold or stocks. Salomon brothers learned that the hard way with bonds. The guys who cornered the silver market lived to regret it. There's just no such protection for BTC. BTC is open to the worst sorts of market manipulation right now.
Yeah, it's just like mortgage derivative securities - the SEC was talked out of regulating those, and what harm was done? I mean, really, of all the overblown concerns.
The SEC is one of the good guys when it bothers to do its job. It's failings are failings to apply its regulations. The market rules - the majority of which are the rules of the markets, but the SEC is also important - defeat centuries of history of ways to scam the market. There are a constant stream of new ways, sure, but the wealth of old ways are really quite bad.
Power plants take fuel, too, which can be the dominant expense. Some percentage--perhaps all--of the "peak only" generation capacity has to be kept spinning so that it can ramp up fast enough to matter, which adds significantly to fuel and maintenance costs.
Well anyway they do it will requires fleets of vessels. We are talking hundreds of tons batteries.
A standard, old-school "Panamax" freighter can carry about 45,000 tons of cargo (plus the weight of the containers). The new freighters for the bigger canal can carry more than twice that. There's a reason freight moves by water where practical.
If you want a big cloud instance, AWS has a 128 core 1,952 GB instance type (plus a smaller version the size of Google's). The Spot price looks like $3/hour as I type this, cheap to run a few benchmarks.
Right now, art in various forms draws a lot of money... but it isn't piracy that will kill Hollywood, it's machinima. Once an affordable computer can replicate the real world (plus special effects)realistically, the current system will fail completely.
There are low budget efforts from the big studios using this very idea that have been pretty good: Star Wars Clone Wars and Rebels, and the DTV Tinkerbell movies. That level of quality has little "wow" factor, but it doesn't matter if the writing is good. It will soon be to the point that independents can create stuff at that quality level, and make some money.
But that's a threat to the direct-to-video market. The Marvel movies are also mostly animation, and no independent outfit will be challenging them any time soon. The render budget is just insane (the entire 3D animation business in the US is kept in business by Marvel movies at this point). CPU hours at scale aren't getting cheaper very fast these days.
The problem is, when you eventually do get laid off (no employer survives forever), you've got nothing. It is possible to gain breadth* and keep your skills current at one employers, but it means changing jobs anyhow, just without changing employers.
*Depth multiple times is the useful kind of breadth for an engineer.
Never heard the phrase "run it up the flagpole" but if you find the question "how will this scale?" annoying, you may want to choose a new line of business.
The full phrase is "let's run this up the flagpole and see who salutes", i.e., let's propose this and see if they buy it. It's a very overused turn of phrase. Say something clever like "let's pass out these matches at the kindergarten and see who ends up in the burn ward".
If you think that coming up with ways to assassinate people is worthy work, then your mind is warped.
Oh, so you wouldn't have assassinated Hitler, given the chance? We could have saved a lot of grief had it been possible to assassinate Saddam Hussein rather than drive in there and drag him out of his spider hole in person.
nearly every action they did that resulted in "regime change" was to benefit some corp that was exploiting the people or the resources of some weaker country
That's not really useful evidence is the thing. Any regime change that didn't install a communist was going to benefit some corp in the region (and if the old guy wasn't a commie, then it would screw whatever corp he was in bed with).
Since the primary mission of the CIA for years was to overthrow small communist-leaning governments, usually for some tyrant who ended up working against us, the result would tend to be pro-corporate just as a side-effect of their blind anti-Red agenda.
This. Heck, the NSA even had a program where they would infect with malware all the PCs/laptops shipped to an area, just in hopes the target would buy one. I'm sure the CIA could do the same with TVs.
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A detail only a jock would know! Checkmate.
So it's somehow more "civilized" to have, in place of a toilet, a robot programmed to attack you unless you know the cryptic key sequence to deactivate it? Take your bizarre robot fetish back to 4chan.
Me, I like Daylight Savings Time, because it will allow me to sit out on the porch in May listening to the Blackhawks game and still have enough light to read.
C'mon, this is easy: the way to eliminate DST is to effectively keep it forever. Timezones can decide to be "sun rises and sets at 7 on the Equinox" just as easily as 6. It's just an arbitrarily chosen number: choose a pleasing one.
Also, you've admitted you follow sportsball, so GTFO /. and never come back. Outsider!
Yes, which is why the way to eliminate DST is to effectively keep it forever. Timezones can decide to be "sun rises and sets at 7 on the Equinox" just as easily as 6. It's just an arbitrarily chosen number: choose a pleasing one.
Not more intelligence. You just have to work more and figure out how to solve more problems,
"Solving more problems" is the only useful definition of "intelligence".
Small government Republicans exist, here and there, but are hardly the establishment. Trump seems intent on reducing the scope of government though. Actions need to follow words, but he might actually make some government departments smaller for once. Wouldn't that be shocking.
To be fair (to the US, not Hillary), Hillary did effectively lose her job and prospects of future employment over the email scandal and the dirt she was hiding in general. Hillary Clinton will never be president of the United States.
It's illegal to corner the market in gold or stocks. Salomon brothers learned that the hard way with bonds. The guys who cornered the silver market lived to regret it. There's just no such protection for BTC. BTC is open to the worst sorts of market manipulation right now.
Yeah, it's just like mortgage derivative securities - the SEC was talked out of regulating those, and what harm was done? I mean, really, of all the overblown concerns.
The SEC is one of the good guys when it bothers to do its job. It's failings are failings to apply its regulations. The market rules - the majority of which are the rules of the markets, but the SEC is also important - defeat centuries of history of ways to scam the market. There are a constant stream of new ways, sure, but the wealth of old ways are really quite bad.
Read this yesterday and just now got the joke. So, LOL. Never change your sig - that show was awesome.
Power plants take fuel, too, which can be the dominant expense. Some percentage--perhaps all--of the "peak only" generation capacity has to be kept spinning so that it can ramp up fast enough to matter, which adds significantly to fuel and maintenance costs.
Well anyway they do it will requires fleets of vessels. We are talking hundreds of tons batteries.
A standard, old-school "Panamax" freighter can carry about 45,000 tons of cargo (plus the weight of the containers). The new freighters for the bigger canal can carry more than twice that. There's a reason freight moves by water where practical.
If you want a big cloud instance, AWS has a 128 core 1,952 GB instance type (plus a smaller version the size of Google's). The Spot price looks like $3/hour as I type this, cheap to run a few benchmarks.
Right now, art in various forms draws a lot of money... but it isn't piracy that will kill Hollywood, it's machinima. Once an affordable computer can replicate the real world (plus special effects)realistically, the current system will fail completely.
There are low budget efforts from the big studios using this very idea that have been pretty good: Star Wars Clone Wars and Rebels, and the DTV Tinkerbell movies. That level of quality has little "wow" factor, but it doesn't matter if the writing is good. It will soon be to the point that independents can create stuff at that quality level, and make some money.
But that's a threat to the direct-to-video market. The Marvel movies are also mostly animation, and no independent outfit will be challenging them any time soon. The render budget is just insane (the entire 3D animation business in the US is kept in business by Marvel movies at this point). CPU hours at scale aren't getting cheaper very fast these days.
You also complain about being paid bottom dollar while living in the Valley, so either he's right or you were paid starvation wages before.
The problem is, when you eventually do get laid off (no employer survives forever), you've got nothing. It is possible to gain breadth* and keep your skills current at one employers, but it means changing jobs anyhow, just without changing employers.
*Depth multiple times is the useful kind of breadth for an engineer.
Never heard the phrase "run it up the flagpole" but if you find the question "how will this scale?" annoying, you may want to choose a new line of business.
The full phrase is "let's run this up the flagpole and see who salutes", i.e., let's propose this and see if they buy it. It's a very overused turn of phrase. Say something clever like "let's pass out these matches at the kindergarten and see who ends up in the burn ward".
I dunno, looks like their proving time cube, to me. They may owe him royalties.
See my subject Bob the Super WEASEL behind a FAKE NAME online for your FAKE LIFE sockpuppet that you are w/ no balls:
I'm pretty sure we all knew "Bob the Super Hamster" wasn't actually his real name. Just sayin'
If you think that coming up with ways to assassinate people is worthy work, then your mind is warped.
Oh, so you wouldn't have assassinated Hitler, given the chance? We could have saved a lot of grief had it been possible to assassinate Saddam Hussein rather than drive in there and drag him out of his spider hole in person.
nearly every action they did that resulted in "regime change" was to benefit some corp that was exploiting the people or the resources of some weaker country
That's not really useful evidence is the thing. Any regime change that didn't install a communist was going to benefit some corp in the region (and if the old guy wasn't a commie, then it would screw whatever corp he was in bed with).
Since the primary mission of the CIA for years was to overthrow small communist-leaning governments, usually for some tyrant who ended up working against us, the result would tend to be pro-corporate just as a side-effect of their blind anti-Red agenda.
This. Heck, the NSA even had a program where they would infect with malware all the PCs/laptops shipped to an area, just in hopes the target would buy one. I'm sure the CIA could do the same with TVs.
Netfliisn't going to port Flash or Silverlight to Linux, but they might port a plug-in that's a few hundred lines of code. See the difference?
No, no, no, you newbie. The troll goes "Still no cure for cancer ...". Now get off my lawn.