The main point of contention was essentially that the EU regulations tend to be overly complex and byzantine. This is not what you want in a constitution, full stop.
In France about 20% of voters had some constitution-oriented reason for voting either way. Rest were voting about their goverment and lackluster representative democracy therein (france), employment, taxes, globalization..
Mostly what had little or nothing to do with the constitutional agreement.
Now the brussels good boys network is planning on indeed making KISS version of the constitutional agreement. So far so good, but in france they plan to pass it without vote this time around! That's one way to make sure the people won't vote wrong way, thought.
And height of absurdity is Italy's initiative to form "progressive core" of EU with france (and Germany).. With the two worst heel draggers in Europe, I'd rather call that the anchor that's going to sink the whole union.
My gf originates from St Petersburg and I'm from Finland. Skypeout just does not work very well to Russia. It'd be dirt cheap, but dirt cheap something that does not work is not worth much. She lives here, but calls her people..
Skype has huge limitation that it does not allow technically savvy people to set up firewall port forwarding etc, instead it relies on a sort of an UDP hack.
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Yeah. Other people go plant trees or something to get feel good buzz about "doing something" (while driving there on a SUV)..
Mr and Ms gates have enormous foundation which funds things like malaria research which poor widdle pharma corps can't be arsed with because profit margins are not lucrative enough.
You can have expensive hobbies when you have enough money. And actually do some honest good with that money. That said, I would've rather used the on beer. (the part of my cash in Gates' coffins)
You can sell nuclear energy to me when you can answer the question "What do we do with 48 tons of nuclear waste generated per year per plant"? Arrogant people think nuclear power is perfectly safe. Paranoid people think nuclear power will destroy the planet. Intelligent people see plant designs that are intrinsically safe, but want to know what we're going to do with the waste.
And to put things into perspective, 48 metric tons is a really minor amount when it's packed into containers. You can fit that into 2 standard 20' shipping containers, where the limiting factor is weight, not volume.
48 tons sounds kinda much, by the way. 4 local reactors produce 70 tons combined annually.
You can always try Space Rangers 2. It's not a clone, but the premise is very similar with wildly different SF game styles fused into one whole. It's dirt cheap too. Check it out.
And why should anyone be surprised? 14-year-old with too much time on his hands has as much weight in wikipedia as some 50-year-old senior academic in a given subject. More in practice as the said teenager can sit all night making revisions whereas the prof probably has classes and schoolwork to go over..
Said avionics package is anything but trivial to implement, of course. Esp considering it's supposed not to keel over if there are couple of unseemly 20mm grenade impact craters in the motherboard..
People are pissing all over the F-35 (another JSF stealth fighter/bomber/everything) because it can't go toe to toe with the SU-35.
Reasonable enough attitude considering Sukhoi makes nice sales in India/China/Insert-Rising-Industrial-country-here.
People are also worried that these planes won't be able to win against 'new' planes. The Ruskies have been sitting on the designs for the SU37 and SU47 because they haven't been able to find anyone to buy it from them.
I'd take Sukhoi marketing material with an unhealthy dose of salt. They know about "marketing B$==Sales", after all. Same as people taking Lockheed sales pitch about outdated air combat as gospel.. That's the attitude which lead into removing cannon from the Phantom. And what a great decision that was!
Sukhoi planes have superior handling but "user interface" is a bit.. Russian. No glass cockpit there as drinking is not allowed while controlling a jet fighter!
Its important to realise that this little group is the brainchild of its chairman - Jonathon Porritt. That's Jonathon Porritt, ex-director of 'Friends of the Earth', ex-chair of the 'Green Party' and all round acceptable face of the greenies in the UK (he's the son of Lord Porritt). The SDC is a government sop to the green movement, making it appear that they are being taken seriously, but not necessarily with any power.
When I took a look at TFA, first thing I thought of was "Who are these SDC guys anyhow?".. Article does not tell who is in that commission and why should we trust them. It's not like greenpeace / oil/coal/gas lobby isn't perfectly capable of churning studies to order. Just like tobacco industry!
You would see one mother of inductive loss at 1MHz. Long (kilometers) power cables are definitely inductive, so high frequency would be kind of aargh. For what it's worth, main grid has nothing to do with 230V/50Hz electricity you get from outlet.
In urban area it's converted to something like 2kV (I forget exactly, over 1kV and below 10kV) In main grid, we're talking 110kV to 440kV lines. The idea is to get current as low as possible as high currents require fat cables and generate heat to warm the legs of crows.
For converting power from 440kV to 2kV urban network would be sort of interesting Volt/second wise if you were running at high(er) frequencies. Transformer core materials are limited by V/s they can generate.
The only limit on using higher frequencies comes when you start to get magnetic losses in transformers and chokes, so in practise a few hundred kHz is the useful limit in switched mode PSUs.
Thus, if you were starting again with an electric grid system, 500 or 1000Hz would be a much better solution.
IAAPD (I am a PSU designer)
1MHz SMPS is nothing fancy these days. In fact they're available even as integrated chips which combine FET switches and the controller into one IC. If you count in point-of-load charge pumps and such, you see up to 3MHz.
Generally speaking, worst offender is high-current FET gate charge which eats up more power than all the other losses combined for synchronous buck transformer (higher DC to lower DC topology, most common type in use probably) Small (1-10uH) inductors are much better behaved in comparison. One reason to use such high frequencies is indeed that you can get smaller inductors and you have less ripple current.. But you're limited by the fet gate charge. Of course, if you're driving some 200W load, you can just say "h*ll with it" and build high power driver circuit to drive your switches, 5% waste heat on switching losses doesn't bring down the house when you can use dirt cheap inductors.
And Putin being a marionette? You sir are one of the most original thinkers of 21st century!
Not so far from the truth. Only wrong end of the strings. We're talking about former kgb man here who's been busily putting his former secret service pals (siloviks) into positions of power. And consolidating president's power over everything. And creating marionette parties to erode voting base of the only true independent opposition they have in the duma (commies of all things!)
Yup, of course the puppetmaster is some behind the scenes illuminati, not the guy with a stranglehold on the entire goverment.. Who in fact just recently had his trained seals pass legislation to chop off legs of any popular movement and has years before taken care of any independent tv networks and is in progress of dealing printed press as well.
No need for penalty camp archipelago when you can simply use goverment controlled proxies to buy out anyone you like..
To make that happen, it has to have a capacity of evacuating the entire staff in case of emergency. To make that happen, it has to have a vehicle(s) capable of carrying back 10+ humans to the Earth. Also it requires more ports to hitch vehicles.
Or, as a stretch, bolt on a couple of russian re-entry modules that you can cram 3 or 4 guys into? Why burn billions to develop another white elephant über ship when you can take care of the problem with a few tin cans developed in 60s and proved numerous times?..That are available for relative pennies.
Longer answer: I have never got S3 to work on a box running some variety of VIA chipset mobo. I have got it to work beautifully in every setup I have used that had SIS/Intel/Nvidia/AMD chipset on various W2k/XP boxes at work and home.
Note that "beautifully" does not imply that getting initially working setup was painless operation. But with correct combination of (WHQ) drivers it has always been doable. On current version of home/work boxes it was pretty much plug + play.
Water cooling is insanely useful to stop you from going insane from the fan noise. I got new mobo + cpu at work and I had to finally cave in and put the box under the desk as the hairdryer was driving me nuts.
Eugenics was the next big thing, and many believed it would be a cure to all disease, and all of societies societies social ills. They believed we would breed our way to a better society, by making people better.
An idea not without some merit.. However, the way it was done for example in sweden is a bit iffy. Retarded and mental patients were forcibly sterilized en masse without consideration whether it's hereditary or not or if there is a valid evolutionary reason some mental illnesses persist..
Plus it's an awfully slippery slope. Where do we draw the line? Should we start sterilizing rednecks? As appealing as the idea may be.. So since we do not have HAL9000 to make unemotional objective decisions about whose bits are cut..
Version with the burned-in subtitles has crappy quality, or so I'm told. You can get the subtitles as a separate.sub file which most media players can handle without problems.
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The main point of contention was essentially that the EU regulations tend to be overly complex and byzantine. This is not what you want in a constitution, full stop.
.. With the two worst heel draggers in Europe, I'd rather call that the anchor that's going to sink the whole union.
In France about 20% of voters had some constitution-oriented reason for voting either way. Rest were voting about their goverment and lackluster representative democracy therein (france), employment, taxes, globalization..
Mostly what had little or nothing to do with the constitutional agreement.
Now the brussels good boys network is planning on indeed making KISS version of the constitutional agreement. So far so good, but in france they plan to pass it without vote this time around! That's one way to make sure the people won't vote wrong way, thought.
And height of absurdity is Italy's initiative to form "progressive core" of EU with france (and Germany)
My gf originates from St Petersburg and I'm from Finland. Skypeout just does not work very well to Russia. It'd be dirt cheap, but dirt cheap something that does not work is not worth much. She lives here, but calls her people..
Skype has huge limitation that it does not allow technically savvy people to set up firewall port forwarding etc, instead it relies on a sort of an UDP hack.
Yeah. Other people go plant trees or something to get feel good buzz about "doing something" (while driving there on a SUV) ..
Mr and Ms gates have enormous foundation which funds things like malaria research which poor widdle pharma corps can't be arsed with because profit margins are not lucrative enough.
You can have expensive hobbies when you have enough money. And actually do some honest good with that money. That said, I would've rather used the on beer. (the part of my cash in Gates' coffins)
# Games? Umm..err.. ;) (it is better than a couple years ago, most *major* games are at least dual platform)
You mean like PC and Xbox360?
Yeah. Good old softening filter -school of pr0n movies. Called couples movies because they're so boring you end up fondling your gf instead!
You can sell nuclear energy to me when you can answer the question "What do we do with 48 tons of nuclear waste generated per year per plant"? Arrogant people think nuclear power is perfectly safe. Paranoid people think nuclear power will destroy the planet. Intelligent people see plant designs that are intrinsically safe, but want to know what we're going to do with the waste.
t ml. Don't have one of those? Well too bad, pardner, vote smarter representatives.
Easy. Put it into the national nuclear waste repository http://www.posiva.fi/englanti/tutkimus_esittely.h
And to put things into perspective, 48 metric tons is a really minor amount when it's packed into containers. You can fit that into 2 standard 20' shipping containers, where the limiting factor is weight, not volume.
48 tons sounds kinda much, by the way. 4 local reactors produce 70 tons combined annually.
You can always try Space Rangers 2. It's not a clone, but the premise is very similar with wildly different SF game styles fused into one whole. It's dirt cheap too. Check it out.
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http://www.theregister.com/2006/03/23/britannica_w ikipedia_nature_study/ Register has nice write up about it all. Apparently Nature cooked the study in a manner worthy of WMD spinmeisters pre IRAQ invasion.
And why should anyone be surprised? 14-year-old with too much time on his hands has as much weight in wikipedia as some 50-year-old senior academic in a given subject. More in practice as the said teenager can sit all night making revisions whereas the prof probably has classes and schoolwork to go over..
Note how they put China and Russia, two countries with lax copyright controls, in the same region.
Yeah. And how those 2 territories are probably among the least impacted by any silly region coding anyone cares to put into movie disks!
You have to go out of your way to actually buy approved and crippled disk in St Petersburg..
Said avionics package is anything but trivial to implement, of course. Esp considering it's supposed not to keel over if there are couple of unseemly 20mm grenade impact craters in the motherboard..
People are pissing all over the F-35 (another JSF stealth fighter/bomber/everything) because it can't go toe to toe with the SU-35.
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.. Russian. No glass cockpit there as drinking is not allowed while controlling a jet fighter!
Reasonable enough attitude considering Sukhoi makes nice sales in India/China/Insert-Rising-Industrial-country-here
People are also worried that these planes won't be able to win against 'new' planes. The Ruskies have been sitting on the designs for the SU37 and SU47 because they haven't been able to find anyone to buy it from them.
I'd take Sukhoi marketing material with an unhealthy dose of salt. They know about "marketing B$==Sales", after all. Same as people taking Lockheed sales pitch about outdated air combat as gospel.. That's the attitude which lead into removing cannon from the Phantom. And what a great decision that was!
Sukhoi planes have superior handling but "user interface" is a bit
Its important to realise that this little group is the brainchild of its chairman - Jonathon Porritt. That's Jonathon Porritt, ex-director of 'Friends of the Earth', ex-chair of the 'Green Party' and all round acceptable face of the greenies in the UK (he's the son of Lord Porritt). The SDC is a government sop to the green movement, making it appear that they are being taken seriously, but not necessarily with any power.
.. Article does not tell who is in that commission and why should we trust them. It's not like greenpeace / oil/coal/gas lobby isn't perfectly capable of churning studies to order. Just like tobacco industry!
When I took a look at TFA, first thing I thought of was "Who are these SDC guys anyhow?"
You would see one mother of inductive loss at 1MHz. Long (kilometers) power cables are definitely inductive, so high frequency would be kind of aargh. For what it's worth, main grid has nothing to do with 230V/50Hz electricity you get from outlet.
In urban area it's converted to something like 2kV (I forget exactly, over 1kV and below 10kV) In main grid, we're talking 110kV to 440kV lines. The idea is to get current as low as possible as high currents require fat cables and generate heat to warm the legs of crows.
For converting power from 440kV to 2kV urban network would be sort of interesting Volt/second wise if you were running at high(er) frequencies. Transformer core materials are limited by V/s they can generate.
The only limit on using higher frequencies comes when you start to get magnetic losses in transformers and chokes, so in practise a few hundred kHz is the useful limit in switched mode PSUs.
Thus, if you were starting again with an electric grid system, 500 or 1000Hz would be a much better solution.
IAAPD (I am a PSU designer)
1MHz SMPS is nothing fancy these days. In fact they're available even as integrated chips which combine FET switches and the controller into one IC. If you count in point-of-load charge pumps and such, you see up to 3MHz.
Generally speaking, worst offender is high-current FET gate charge which eats up more power than all the other losses combined for synchronous buck transformer (higher DC to lower DC topology, most common type in use probably) Small (1-10uH) inductors are much better behaved in comparison. One reason to use such high frequencies is indeed that you can get smaller inductors and you have less ripple current.. But you're limited by the fet gate charge. Of course, if you're driving some 200W load, you can just say "h*ll with it" and build high power driver circuit to drive your switches, 5% waste heat on switching losses doesn't bring down the house when you can use dirt cheap inductors.
Large nuclear plants have a 20 year production lead time
Yeah? And here I thought that in Finland one is being kicked up in considerably less time.
And Putin being a marionette? You sir are one of the most original thinkers of 21st century!
Not so far from the truth. Only wrong end of the strings. We're talking about former kgb man here who's been busily putting his former secret service pals (siloviks) into positions of power. And consolidating president's power over everything. And creating marionette parties to erode voting base of the only true independent opposition they have in the duma (commies of all things!)
Yup, of course the puppetmaster is some behind the scenes illuminati, not the guy with a stranglehold on the entire goverment.. Who in fact just recently had his trained seals pass legislation to chop off legs of any popular movement and has years before taken care of any independent tv networks and is in progress of dealing printed press as well.
No need for penalty camp archipelago when you can simply use goverment controlled proxies to buy out anyone you like..
To make that happen, it has to have a capacity of evacuating the entire staff in case of emergency. To make that happen, it has to have a vehicle(s) capable of carrying back 10+ humans to the Earth. Also it requires more ports to hitch vehicles.
..That are available for relative pennies.
Or, as a stretch, bolt on a couple of russian re-entry modules that you can cram 3 or 4 guys into? Why burn billions to develop another white elephant über ship when you can take care of the problem with a few tin cans developed in 60s and proved numerous times?
Short answer: Don't use VIA chipset motherboards.
Longer answer: I have never got S3 to work on a box running some variety of VIA chipset mobo. I have got it to work beautifully in every setup I have used that had SIS/Intel/Nvidia/AMD chipset on various W2k/XP boxes at work and home.
Note that "beautifully" does not imply that getting initially working setup was painless operation. But with correct combination of (WHQ) drivers it has always been doable. On current version of home/work boxes it was pretty much plug + play.
Amen. Microsoft is a software company that produces ace hardware. I'm sure there's a moral to this all somewhere.
Water cooling is insanely useful to stop you from going insane from the fan noise. I got new mobo + cpu at work and I had to finally cave in and put the box under the desk as the hairdryer was driving me nuts.
That's probably the only sane or rational analysis of Ender's Game presented in this whole thread!
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"Sane" and "Rational" have never been fashionable at
And I get -1 Troll for pointing out the book is in fact Anti-War. Shouldn't go against the group mind at /. ..
At least you got fair moderation.
Ender's game?
Book reads something like "Full Metal Jacket" training phase except for 1st graders.
I'm sure in the hollywood version it's all surly teenagers etcetera. Can't have Card's anti-war message coming through too clearly now.
Eugenics was the next big thing, and many believed it would be a cure to all disease, and all of societies societies social ills. They believed we would breed our way to a better society, by making people better.
An idea not without some merit.. However, the way it was done for example in sweden is a bit iffy. Retarded and mental patients were forcibly sterilized en masse without consideration whether it's hereditary or not or if there is a valid evolutionary reason some mental illnesses persist..
Plus it's an awfully slippery slope. Where do we draw the line? Should we start sterilizing rednecks? As appealing as the idea may be.. So since we do not have HAL9000 to make unemotional objective decisions about whose bits are cut..
Version with the burned-in subtitles has crappy quality, or so I'm told. You can get the subtitles as a separate .sub file which most media players can handle without problems.