We are still permitting secondary effects to be ignored. If you count the cost of cleaning up the pollution produced by coal and oil plants then the cost of using that type of energy is MUCH higher.
Ah, the old citation-less "much higher" statistic. Thats great. Meanwhile, lets never factor in the pollution caused by Photovoltaic manufacturing, or the batteries they require to provide power round-the-clock.
You must have a sugar-high with all that kool-aid you've been drinking. You decry a grand conspiracy by the entrenched energy monopolies, but the reality is that those same energy monopolies dont really give a shit how the energy is generated. They draw from nuclear, coal, gas, hydro, geothermal, wind, solar, and even garbage incinerators.
Did you think that your local electric company gives a rats ass how the electricity is produced given that they buy from the cheapest sources they can until they fill demand? Your conspiracy theory rings as bullshit to someone like me whose eyes are open to the existing reality of the current market.
Not only are you drinking the eco-kool-aid, you are also a fucking conspiracy nut.
Solar PV could pay back the energy cost of its production in 7 years in the 1970s, and can safely be assumed to be much better today. There really are things more important than money. Unfortunately, those in charge do not agree.
I'll support Solar Power sometime after the manufacturers of Photovoltaics start powering their factories with Photovoltaics. Until then, STFU about Photovoltaics. Really. Even the manufacturers don't use it, AND THEY GET THE HARDWARE AT COST.
A critically important part of any shell or Command Language Interface is user binding of names/late-binding/re-binding, which can't be done at compile time.
Late-Binding can be handled by code generated at compile time (VB6 for instance, supported late-binding in compiled code...) So now I am doubting the veracity of your other claims.
Certainly its not very efficient to use late-binding, and in VB6's case (which exclusively uses COM objects), this involved the compiler generating a call to QueryInterface() to get the method and property tables and whatnot (this is a method on IUnknown, an interface that all COM objects inherit from)..
If an interpreter can do it, so can a compiler. Maybe you have been corrupted by the C++ way of thinking, where objects are simply structures and methods associated with it are called with a 'this' pointer (loaded into the ecx register in VC, and passed on the stack in GCC.) In most other languages, objects have a pre-defined minimum of information to support late binding.
More and more, people are also choosing canned-solutions to file serving, where the file server is a black-box appliance with no OS to be interacted with. Its just a box you buy and plug into the network, with a configuration screen delivered by HTML.
I would like to see a GUI that allows me to pass 1000 noncontiguous hosts out of a dataset of 10K. (eg: matches cluster foo but not if it also has bar. But always if it has n1 or n2, regardless of if it has foo or bar. Both the host dataset and the target hosts are derived from a query and passed to at least one other operation.
This isnt even really the domain of CLI either. This is the domain of scripting languages, and specifically ones that make it easy to perform those sorts of string matches while also avoiding errors.
That sort of thing is really easy to fuck up with a series of pipes command-line expression, be it bash, korn, or powershell.
What I am thinking of here is a GUI application that accepts a script to parse a host list file into seperate "do" and "dont" lists, AND THEN DISPLAYS THE LIST for idiot-checking.
Bittorrent has more than a reputation issue to overcome.
From the ISP's perspective, Bittorrent is a distributed denial of service attack. Regardless of how much ISP's invest in their infrastructure, bittorrent is designed to saturate it.
My 6Mbit cable pipe is no match for a thousand 56kbit modems, and my neighbors will also feel the effects of my 6Mbit being saturated. This problem isnt exclusive to cable, for even with DSL there are shared points (just located differently.)
You took way too many words to say what can be translated as "I really dont know what I'm talking about, not one bit, but just the same I have formed the opinion that Microsoft is trying to screw me with this DX10 stuff"
The fact of the matter is that the DX10 hacks for XP fail miserably as soon as multiple processes/threads attempt to use a single DX context at the same time. To enable a DX context to be highly threaded, the display driver specification itself needed to be changed.
So while some early DX10 games work fine on the DX10+XP hack, many newer ones do not because they use multiple threads and expect to not deadlock in the display driver when presented with DX10. Microsoft alone can't solve the problem because it also requires that nVidia/ATi go through extra work (more than they need to do on Vista/7 because its driver hooks implicitly supports threading) within their XP drivers, and its work that actually destroys the benefits of multi-threaded rendering.
The upshot is that even if nVidia/ATI were to play along on this, most DX10 games would still be listed as only supporting Vista/7 for DX10 anyways because XP just wouldn't have the same performance with the same hardware. The only realistic way to make XP properly support DX10 is to change the driver model of XP, which is an insane thing to do for a 10 year old OS that is in extended support phase. Its not a conspiracy. Its just the way it is.
In the case of humans, because we can supplant the necessity to ensure the survival of other species in order to ensure our own, we often disregard this necessity, making our pursuits our "only" concern. This trait ensures that before too much longer there will only be us [citation needed], and our "net loss" pursuits here on earth.
Hell, I don't even think that you believe this shit. I think that you just like repeating it because you think the act of repeating it says something good about your character.
When you put character above intelligence it is a shallow, transparent, character. The only people you can possibly impress with this shit are people that don't care if what you say is stupid or not.. the kind of people that just want to fit in with a crowd of morons.
The second most frustrating thing is that server admins don't have the power to turn this stuff off.
You are full of shit. There are mods that restrict the weapons you can use, and one in particular (Randomizer) even forces specifically chosen weapons on you.
Why would any self-respecting geek want to work in a place where there is no possibility of being management, and all the management is, self-admittedly, not 'qualified' to do their job?
So it would appear to take 21.86 years to travel to a planet 20 light years away? Something tells me you've made a mistake here:p
No, thats actually just about right in my estimation.
The speed of light is only 299,792,458 meters per second. There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year. 1G of acceleration is approximately 9.8m/s^2 (meters per second per second.)
The result: It takes less than a year to significantly approach the speed of light (relative to some observer) at 1G of acceleration.
If fuel became a non-issue, it would be possible for a human being to travel billions upon billions of light years in a single lifetime on that 1G of acceleration thanks to the time dilation effect, traveling not just across our galaxy but also across the entire visible universe.
A MacBook is "just $999" (thats a quote from their page.. "just")
That has a 2.4ghz Core Duo, 2GB DDR, 13.3" LED, and a 250GB Hard Drive.
A quick check of Dell reveals the Inspiron 14 for just $725.
That has a 2.5ghz Core Duo (better), 2GB DDR, 14" OLED (better), and a 320GB Hard Drive (better).
Both come with an OS..
Now, you can take your $275 in savings for the better gear, add $25 and also buy a Inspiron Mini 10 for $300 (that ALSO comes with an OS)
Face the facts, fanboy. Macs are way overpriced. If the OS is as cheap as people claim, then why the fuck is there such a disparity in price? Looks to me like the REAL price of OS/X is $275 more than the price of Windows 7.
It should be pointed out that the reason China does everything in its power to be competitive is because it has no choice. They've got 1.4 billion people to care for. Back when communism was all the rage it was as easy as supplying enough rice, fish, and fruits for everyone, but that put them at a global production disadvantage leading to an atrocious standard of living.
So now China is raising the standard of living for its people, but that means a billion people need to produce more than just rice. The greatest consumer of Chinese goods is China. The rest of the world only gets a small fraction of its total output.. the leftovers.
I get a bank account at WeAreSecure Bank and Trust and they require Iris Scanning. Great, right?
Then I get a job at WeAreParanoid Industries and they require Iris Scanning. Great... oh wait...
Now some WeAreParanoid employees have all the information needed to mess with my WeAreSecure accounts, and some WeAreSecure employees have all the information they need to gain unauthorized access to WeAreParanoid.
Now, add Iris Scanning to both State and Federal government stuff.. and before you know it, Iris Spoofing becomes and unstoppable crime.
In modern times, we don't need less collective bargaining, we need more.
I disagree. We neither need more, nor less unions. It is not up to me to determine your working conditions any more than it is up to you to determine mine. If we work in the same field then we may agree that conditions need changing for both of us, but that it is up to us to agree to collectively fight for each other.
More often than not, businesses unintentionally encourage unionization. These days it often begins with the workers attempting to organize a sick-out or other "hey, we arent happy so we are putting a blip on your books" signal to the employer. This is sometimes met with promises for change that turn out to be empty, and it is that deceptive behavior that often ends up putting real momentum behind a unionization movement.
I work for a company with over ten thousand employees at a single site and several departments (thousands of workers) have unionized, while other departments have chosen not to, and it was in fact empty promises that put teeth in the departments that ended up unionizing. There is no push to unionize the other departments against there will. About 15 miles away is another company in the exact same business with nearly ten thousand employees as well, but they do not have any unions because in that case, management didn't blunder their way into unionization.
The anti-union sentiment is pretty strong in the United States and it takes a lot of overcome that sentiment, and thats exactly how it should be.
Civ4 had DRM that stopped me handing the disk to a friend? Wow, I must have bought a broken one.
No, it just has DRM that prevents the retail version from running on Vista or Windows 7. Hope you made a backup of the patch that removes the SafeDisc requirement, and make sure you hand that to your friends as well.
Oh, and you can't make a backup... Steam users can make backups.
Its called SafeDisc and is installed by the retail version of the game. Later patches removed the need for having this DRM & RootKit installed, but left it on your system. Did you not know that you have a rootkit on your system installed by Civ4?
I guess its only Steam Hate that you folks care about, even though Steam is infinitely better.
I'm not a Democrat. I never said any party was better than the other. I stated that the Republicans are not a small government party...
Look at the graph. End of story. If you dont like the evidence in the graph you provided, then maybe you shouldn't have provided it. Hell, I dont even consider the relation between GDP and federal budget as valid for most arguments, but you obviously do. There is no reason for these two things to be tied to each other, but you obviously think otherwise, but you dont want to swallow the conclusions that can be reached from the graph.
I am now convinced that you thought that only the president matters, because obviously you had thought that under Reagan that the republicans were in control, and that under Bush Sr the Republicans were in control, and that under Clinton the democrats were in control. Your thinking was wrong every single time. In that 20 year period, nobody ever had a monopoly, yet here you are putting up graphs trying to show that Republicans were bad during the Reagan and Bush Sr periods when it was in fact the Democrats that had House *and* Senate through most of it.
Obviously you arent educated enough in HOW AMERICA WORKS to make valid arguments. Come back after you read the constitution and understand the roles of each branch of government.
During the Clinton years, it was the Republicans that would not pass a budget that was too big. Lead by Newt Gingrich, the Republicans castrated the Democrat spending plans in 96 and 96. Historical fact not changed by Newt's later ethics violation. Clinton claims credit for greatly reduced deficits, but everyone who was paying attention then knows that it wasn't Clinton, who called the move to block his budget "A Contract On America."
Now, as for your first graph. Looks to me like things were pretty much getting better from 1980 until 2000 (Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton), and then went up slightly in early Bush Jr (just like I said, when the republicans had unchallenged power holding House, Senate, and Whitehouse) and then leveled off until 2008, when the democrats took unchallenged power and spending went through the roof.
....exactly as I fucking said....
Perhaps you can't see through the bullshit that is your Love for Democrats to see that I described that fucking graph exactly?
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We are still permitting secondary effects to be ignored. If you count the cost of cleaning up the pollution produced by coal and oil plants then the cost of using that type of energy is MUCH higher.
Ah, the old citation-less "much higher" statistic. Thats great. Meanwhile, lets never factor in the pollution caused by Photovoltaic manufacturing, or the batteries they require to provide power round-the-clock.
You must have a sugar-high with all that kool-aid you've been drinking. You decry a grand conspiracy by the entrenched energy monopolies, but the reality is that those same energy monopolies dont really give a shit how the energy is generated. They draw from nuclear, coal, gas, hydro, geothermal, wind, solar, and even garbage incinerators.
Did you think that your local electric company gives a rats ass how the electricity is produced given that they buy from the cheapest sources they can until they fill demand? Your conspiracy theory rings as bullshit to someone like me whose eyes are open to the existing reality of the current market.
Not only are you drinking the eco-kool-aid, you are also a fucking conspiracy nut.
Solar PV could pay back the energy cost of its production in 7 years in the 1970s, and can safely be assumed to be much better today. There really are things more important than money. Unfortunately, those in charge do not agree.
I'll support Solar Power sometime after the manufacturers of Photovoltaics start powering their factories with Photovoltaics. Until then, STFU about Photovoltaics. Really. Even the manufacturers don't use it, AND THEY GET THE HARDWARE AT COST.
I don't think that it could be put any more cogently than 'meh.'
You act like you think that wind power is new, novel, innovative, or some combination of those. Its none of that. Its just 'meh'
A critically important part of any shell or Command Language Interface is user binding of names/late-binding/re-binding, which can't be done at compile time.
Late-Binding can be handled by code generated at compile time (VB6 for instance, supported late-binding in compiled code...) So now I am doubting the veracity of your other claims.
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Certainly its not very efficient to use late-binding, and in VB6's case (which exclusively uses COM objects), this involved the compiler generating a call to QueryInterface() to get the method and property tables and whatnot (this is a method on IUnknown, an interface that all COM objects inherit from)
If an interpreter can do it, so can a compiler. Maybe you have been corrupted by the C++ way of thinking, where objects are simply structures and methods associated with it are called with a 'this' pointer (loaded into the ecx register in VC, and passed on the stack in GCC.) In most other languages, objects have a pre-defined minimum of information to support late binding.
More and more, people are also choosing canned-solutions to file serving, where the file server is a black-box appliance with no OS to be interacted with. Its just a box you buy and plug into the network, with a configuration screen delivered by HTML.
I would like to see a GUI that allows me to pass 1000 noncontiguous hosts out of a dataset of 10K. (eg: matches cluster foo but not if it also has bar. But always if it has n1 or n2, regardless of if it has foo or bar. Both the host dataset and the target hosts are derived from a query and passed to at least one other operation.
This isnt even really the domain of CLI either. This is the domain of scripting languages, and specifically ones that make it easy to perform those sorts of string matches while also avoiding errors.
That sort of thing is really easy to fuck up with a series of pipes command-line expression, be it bash, korn, or powershell.
What I am thinking of here is a GUI application that accepts a script to parse a host list file into seperate "do" and "dont" lists, AND THEN DISPLAYS THE LIST for idiot-checking.
Bittorrent has more than a reputation issue to overcome.
From the ISP's perspective, Bittorrent is a distributed denial of service attack. Regardless of how much ISP's invest in their infrastructure, bittorrent is designed to saturate it.
My 6Mbit cable pipe is no match for a thousand 56kbit modems, and my neighbors will also feel the effects of my 6Mbit being saturated. This problem isnt exclusive to cable, for even with DSL there are shared points (just located differently.)
You took way too many words to say what can be translated as "I really dont know what I'm talking about, not one bit, but just the same I have formed the opinion that Microsoft is trying to screw me with this DX10 stuff"
The fact of the matter is that the DX10 hacks for XP fail miserably as soon as multiple processes/threads attempt to use a single DX context at the same time. To enable a DX context to be highly threaded, the display driver specification itself needed to be changed.
So while some early DX10 games work fine on the DX10+XP hack, many newer ones do not because they use multiple threads and expect to not deadlock in the display driver when presented with DX10. Microsoft alone can't solve the problem because it also requires that nVidia/ATi go through extra work (more than they need to do on Vista/7 because its driver hooks implicitly supports threading) within their XP drivers, and its work that actually destroys the benefits of multi-threaded rendering.
The upshot is that even if nVidia/ATI were to play along on this, most DX10 games would still be listed as only supporting Vista/7 for DX10 anyways because XP just wouldn't have the same performance with the same hardware. The only realistic way to make XP properly support DX10 is to change the driver model of XP, which is an insane thing to do for a 10 year old OS that is in extended support phase. Its not a conspiracy. Its just the way it is.
This is not the first post. Honest.
BTW, I almost type anthropomorphic global warming. Now that would be neat.
In the case of humans, because we can supplant the necessity to ensure the survival of other species in order to ensure our own, we often disregard this necessity, making our pursuits our "only" concern. This trait ensures that before too much longer there will only be us [citation needed], and our "net loss" pursuits here on earth.
Hell, I don't even think that you believe this shit. I think that you just like repeating it because you think the act of repeating it says something good about your character.
When you put character above intelligence it is a shallow, transparent, character. The only people you can possibly impress with this shit are people that don't care if what you say is stupid or not.. the kind of people that just want to fit in with a crowd of morons.
The second most frustrating thing is that server admins don't have the power to turn this stuff off.
You are full of shit. There are mods that restrict the weapons you can use, and one in particular (Randomizer) even forces specifically chosen weapons on you.
Why would any self-respecting geek want to work in a place where there is no possibility of being management, and all the management is, self-admittedly, not 'qualified' to do their job?
Government pension.
Check your math. You appear to be calculating the average speed after 1 year, not the final speed..
So it would appear to take 21.86 years to travel to a planet 20 light years away? Something tells me you've made a mistake here :p
No, thats actually just about right in my estimation.
The speed of light is only 299,792,458 meters per second. There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year. 1G of acceleration is approximately 9.8m/s^2 (meters per second per second.)
The result: It takes less than a year to significantly approach the speed of light (relative to some observer) at 1G of acceleration.
If fuel became a non-issue, it would be possible for a human being to travel billions upon billions of light years in a single lifetime on that 1G of acceleration thanks to the time dilation effect, traveling not just across our galaxy but also across the entire visible universe.
A MacBook is "just $999" (thats a quote from their page.. "just")
That has a 2.4ghz Core Duo, 2GB DDR, 13.3" LED, and a 250GB Hard Drive.
A quick check of Dell reveals the Inspiron 14 for just $725.
That has a 2.5ghz Core Duo (better), 2GB DDR, 14" OLED (better), and a 320GB Hard Drive (better).
Both come with an OS..
Now, you can take your $275 in savings for the better gear, add $25 and also buy a Inspiron Mini 10 for $300 (that ALSO comes with an OS)
Face the facts, fanboy. Macs are way overpriced. If the OS is as cheap as people claim, then why the fuck is there such a disparity in price? Looks to me like the REAL price of OS/X is $275 more than the price of Windows 7.
It should be pointed out that the reason China does everything in its power to be competitive is because it has no choice. They've got 1.4 billion people to care for. Back when communism was all the rage it was as easy as supplying enough rice, fish, and fruits for everyone, but that put them at a global production disadvantage leading to an atrocious standard of living.
So now China is raising the standard of living for its people, but that means a billion people need to produce more than just rice. The greatest consumer of Chinese goods is China. The rest of the world only gets a small fraction of its total output.. the leftovers.
I'll give a shit only when the solar panel manufacturers start using solar panels for their power needs.
You never really know what a strangers name is.
It isnt just compromised passwords.
Consider the following...
I get a bank account at WeAreSecure Bank and Trust and they require Iris Scanning. Great, right?
Then I get a job at WeAreParanoid Industries and they require Iris Scanning. Great... oh wait...
Now some WeAreParanoid employees have all the information needed to mess with my WeAreSecure accounts, and some WeAreSecure employees have all the information they need to gain unauthorized access to WeAreParanoid.
Now, add Iris Scanning to both State and Federal government stuff.. and before you know it, Iris Spoofing becomes and unstoppable crime.
In modern times, we don't need less collective bargaining, we need more.
I disagree. We neither need more, nor less unions. It is not up to me to determine your working conditions any more than it is up to you to determine mine. If we work in the same field then we may agree that conditions need changing for both of us, but that it is up to us to agree to collectively fight for each other.
More often than not, businesses unintentionally encourage unionization. These days it often begins with the workers attempting to organize a sick-out or other "hey, we arent happy so we are putting a blip on your books" signal to the employer. This is sometimes met with promises for change that turn out to be empty, and it is that deceptive behavior that often ends up putting real momentum behind a unionization movement.
I work for a company with over ten thousand employees at a single site and several departments (thousands of workers) have unionized, while other departments have chosen not to, and it was in fact empty promises that put teeth in the departments that ended up unionizing. There is no push to unionize the other departments against there will. About 15 miles away is another company in the exact same business with nearly ten thousand employees as well, but they do not have any unions because in that case, management didn't blunder their way into unionization.
The anti-union sentiment is pretty strong in the United States and it takes a lot of overcome that sentiment, and thats exactly how it should be.
Civ4 had DRM that stopped me handing the disk to a friend? Wow, I must have bought a broken one.
No, it just has DRM that prevents the retail version from running on Vista or Windows 7. Hope you made a backup of the patch that removes the SafeDisc requirement, and make sure you hand that to your friends as well.
Oh, and you can't make a backup... Steam users can make backups.
Where's the Civ4 DRM?
Its called SafeDisc and is installed by the retail version of the game. Later patches removed the need for having this DRM & RootKit installed, but left it on your system. Did you not know that you have a rootkit on your system installed by Civ4?
I guess its only Steam Hate that you folks care about, even though Steam is infinitely better.
I'm not a Democrat. I never said any party was better than the other. I stated that the Republicans are not a small government party...
Look at the graph. End of story. If you dont like the evidence in the graph you provided, then maybe you shouldn't have provided it. Hell, I dont even consider the relation between GDP and federal budget as valid for most arguments, but you obviously do. There is no reason for these two things to be tied to each other, but you obviously think otherwise, but you dont want to swallow the conclusions that can be reached from the graph.
I am now convinced that you thought that only the president matters, because obviously you had thought that under Reagan that the republicans were in control, and that under Bush Sr the Republicans were in control, and that under Clinton the democrats were in control. Your thinking was wrong every single time. In that 20 year period, nobody ever had a monopoly, yet here you are putting up graphs trying to show that Republicans were bad during the Reagan and Bush Sr periods when it was in fact the Democrats that had House *and* Senate through most of it.
Obviously you arent educated enough in HOW AMERICA WORKS to make valid arguments. Come back after you read the constitution and understand the roles of each branch of government.
During the Clinton years, it was the Republicans that would not pass a budget that was too big. Lead by Newt Gingrich, the Republicans castrated the Democrat spending plans in 96 and 96. Historical fact not changed by Newt's later ethics violation. Clinton claims credit for greatly reduced deficits, but everyone who was paying attention then knows that it wasn't Clinton, who called the move to block his budget "A Contract On America."
....exactly as I fucking said....
Now, as for your first graph. Looks to me like things were pretty much getting better from 1980 until 2000 (Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton), and then went up slightly in early Bush Jr (just like I said, when the republicans had unchallenged power holding House, Senate, and Whitehouse) and then leveled off until 2008, when the democrats took unchallenged power and spending went through the roof.
Perhaps you can't see through the bullshit that is your Love for Democrats to see that I described that fucking graph exactly?