For one thing, any sort of "abrupt peak" and resulting fuel shortages is ridiculous. As the supply decreases, the price will increase, lowering demand...not difficult to understand. I already replied to your statement, but I forgot your main argument. I'm not going to say that peak oil will happen abruptly or not, because I don't know. What I do know is that the US government knows about it and has been "propping up" the supply of oil by leveraging OPEC. I don't see why it isn't possible that an "abrupt" supply shortage isn't possible in the near future. You are economically correct up to the point where you assume that the free market is controlling oil prices. It simply isn't so, and by artificially tampering with it we could seriously be screwing ourselves.
the problem is that the current ideological climate in the west and in the middle east seems to favor the extremists, who do want war. let us moderates regain the upper hand before the extremists achieve their wish Would that not make you the "extremist"?
"I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal" You left out the beginning of that quote "Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,'"
He was clearly labeling the D.C. criminal justice system as being racist.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YDnWT4gCJSE
They just informed everyone that they have PROOF that an ENTIRE BUS FULL of Ron Paul DELEGATES from San Antonio were prevented from voting. They arrived on time and were denied. After another bus pulled up and they were ushered in through the side entrance.
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What portion of that 95% is due to technological superiority vs. vendor lock-in, and monopolistic practices?
Since people aren't exactly flocking to the newly available free alternatives despite them being trumpeted by the IT press, probably not as much of the latter as you think. wtf is "IT press"? I might have seen an article or two about wxWidgets from ibm.com, but for the most part thanks to Microsoft's dominance: "If you want to develop for Windows, you use MS tools". Guess what? Those MS tools use monopolistic practices to lock the software into using MS proprietary libraries.
Out of the 500 top supercomputers, 6 use Windows, and 426 use Linux...Windows doesn't scale quite as well.
Out of the entire desktop market, 95% uses Windows and a negligible percentage uses Linux. Apparently, Linux doesn't handle the midrange very well. What portion of that 95% is due to technological superiority vs. vendor lock-in, and monopolistic practices? I'd definitely be surprised if Linux didn't have a higher market share if all those Windows apps and drivers were based on portable APIs rather than MS's proprietary libs.
I don't see any of the top 10 Pure-play semiconductor foundries in Austin. Note that the top 4 of those foundries hold about 84% of the market. If VIA does happen to use any fabs based in Austin, then it isn't much of their production.
It's right at the top of Wikipedia's VIA Page:
VIA Technologies is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits... VIA conducts research and development of its chipsets in-house, then subcontracts the actual (silicon) manufacturing to third-party merchant foundries (such as TSMC.) Most likely TSMC, which is based mostly in Taiwan, but also has a fab near Portland.
Now that I think about it, that was completely irrational. It's not like Android comes with Quake.. If they got Quake on it, then they can get SDL on it... or statically link SDL with Quake.
FreeType, OpenGL, SQL Lite No SDL? They must have at least SDL because they showed off Quake running on it. The most popular port of Quake on Linux uses SDL. I'm sure they left out many other libs that it comes with too.
They don't necessarily need to make a profit w/ Android. This whole thing might be a defensive strategy to keep the client-side web open, which is something google's real profits depend on.
"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal," Paul said. He's basically insulting D.C.'s criminal justice system, not blacks. Read his quote again because I'm not spinning anything. I've seen this accusation against Paul many times. It's a bit refreshing that it's the only thing people can dig up on him.
As a sidenote: I'm a strong proponent doing away with the 2-party system by allowing voters to cast a vote for as many candidates as they want. This is called Approval Voting.
It seems to be very small to be a peer to peer client. IIRC, Storm uses a 5 stage infection. You are only looking at the 1st stage, which would connect, via several possible fast-fluxing domain names, to download the next stage's exe. It also overwrites several system files like tcpip.sys which allow it to survive reboots.
In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. It exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Nigis are not negotiable currency, because Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.
Take the current Total Proven Oil Reserves, and the current Oil Consumption Per Day for the world, and divide the former by the later. Assuming our current consumption rate, those reserves would be dry in around 42 years. The world's consumption rate has been increasing exponentially...
My freshman college physics professor didn't allow calculators on our exams, but he said we could use a slide-rule. So.. My dad lent me his and gave me a quick tutorial. I think I was the only student to show up with one. It actually slowed me down though (probably because I was still getting used to it).
Japan had offered to surrender before we dropped the FIRST bomb. False. The Japanese refused our demand of unconditional surrender. They offered to surrender with only one condition: that the emperor remain in power. So you are, effectively, defending the bombings of Japan because of one detail in their negotiations. No one had to die if we just accepted their compromise.
Excuse me for not trusting a mad religious crack-pot dictator with an apocalyptic world view not to use a nuclear program to leverage his position in the world, and intimidate or harm "the great Satan".
Iran? I thought you were referring to GWB there for a moment.
The Republic of Iran is a democratically elected theocratic republic.
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Oil - proved reserves for the world (billion barrels):
1,312,000,000,000 bbl
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2178rank.html
(notice Canada's oil shale is second to Saudi Arabia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale
Oil - consumption for the world (bbl per day):
82,590,000 bbl/day
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html
I agree that, even now, we will be seeing an exponential increase in the price of oil. That doesn't diminish the fact that Hubbert's "peak oil" is real, and will occur on a global scale in a matter of decades if not already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil#Conservative_predictions_of_future_oil_production
I work in the oil exploration industry.. Oil isn't so easy to find, you know.
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He was clearly labeling the D.C. criminal justice system as being racist.
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I don't see any of the top 10 Pure-play semiconductor foundries in Austin. Note that the top 4 of those foundries hold about 84% of the market. If VIA does happen to use any fabs based in Austin, then it isn't much of their production.
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Sorry to hear about your car/insurance crap. That totally sucks. My window ended up costing around $300.
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Now that I think about it, that was completely irrational. It's not like Android comes with Quake.. If they got Quake on it, then they can get SDL on it... or statically link SDL with Quake.
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They don't necessarily need to make a profit w/ Android. This whole thing might be a defensive strategy to keep the client-side web open, which is something google's real profits depend on.
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Sorry to nitpick, but shouldn't that be $10e6, or $1e7?
Hell, just use <Dr Evil>10 Million Dollars! Muahahaha</Dr Evil>
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woops. 1GiB == 2^30 bytes, not 2^9.
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Indeed. the summary is incorrect. 1GB == 10^9 bytes vs. 1GiB == 2^9 bytes. This isn't new people.
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In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. It exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Nigis are not negotiable currency, because Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.
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Take the current Total Proven Oil Reserves, and the current Oil Consumption Per Day for the world, and divide the former by the later. Assuming our current consumption rate, those reserves would be dry in around 42 years. The world's consumption rate has been increasing exponentially...
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My freshman college physics professor didn't allow calculators on our exams, but he said we could use a slide-rule. So.. My dad lent me his and gave me a quick tutorial. I think I was the only student to show up with one. It actually slowed me down though (probably because I was still getting used to it).
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I was never implying that Iran doesn't have a long way to go wrt social issues. The US also had a long ways to go in that regard.
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And I know for a fact that there are no gay people in Iran.
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Iran? I thought you were referring to GWB there for a moment.
The Republic of Iran is a democratically elected theocratic republic.
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