AMD just doesn't have the fabs at present to supply 90% of the market.
They are continually building fabs, they have contracts with 3rd parties to supply cores if they can't meet demand, and are now taking on ATI as well.
Intel is the one that has had recent supply problems. Their serious chipset shortages at the end of 2005 seriously raised prices, and forced many companies to go elsewhere.
Soon enough, links from one cloud to another will start to happen.
I can see this happening in some areas, but certainly not ALL of them.
Who in Oklahoma is going to pay to build the huge towers needed for carrying the signal across the state? In other areas, you may be able to get a sliver of property on the tops of mountains, and have reasonably short distances between dense population centers to connect, but in most of the US, I don't see this happening in a non-profit way. Forget about intercontinental links.
Then there's jamming... Since 802.11 uses unlicensed spectrum, anyone interested in severing your connection can park a van with a 2.4GHz transmitter wherever they want, for as long as they want, and you can't do anything to stop them (other than a concerted effort by everyone to use highly-directional antennas).
How about routing? Who's going to pay for the (entrusted) routers to manage this mess of every-node-is-a-hop massive routing table? The only alternative would be every individual computer keeping the FULL routing table of every node in the world, keeping track of every node that goes offline or comes online, and hoping none of that changes once you've sent your packet on it's way.
How about latency? Even assuming ideal routing, you can just forget about gaming and VoIP calls if you've got 500 hops between the endpoints. It would practically require a return to the BBS days, and eliminate many benefits of the current internet. .
I think a far more practical solution is to get a bunch of people together, and start-up your own (modest) telco.
COFDM seems to be slightly better with multipath, and mobile reception, but those problems are starting to be improved upon as the recievers continue to develop. 8VSB has a range and power advantage over COFDM, although that may also potentially be improved upon as transmitters continue to develop.
Additionally, the ATSC standard requires AC3, which is technically superior (quality/bitrate) to MP2 which is most commonly used with DTV in other countries.
And now we will probably end up with BluRay because of some gaming console... (PS3)
BluRay IS the technically superior technology. It stores 25GBs per layer, instead of 15 like HD-DVD. It has (and requires) a strong scratch-resistant coating on it. It uses all the same video/audio codecs as HD-DVD. It has a much more advanced Java menu system. etc.
With VHS vs Betamax, there wasn't any existing technology that did the same thing (unless you count reel projectors, which I don't).
Not even remotely true. There were several different attempts at home video systems at the time, not just projectors.
Non-projected holographic film like EVR (worked like video cassettes) predated Betamax. Early tape formats like Sony's CV2000 and U-Matic, CartriVision, InstaVideo, etc., all pre-dated Betamax. Disc-based systems like CED and LaserDiscs were also in competition the early days.
Today, we have far fewer formats competing. Blu-ray, HD-DVD, D-VHS/D-Theatre, and WMVHD DVDs seem to be the only options. (Though I'd love to hear of any other niche technologies currently or previous out there)
The market isn't really demanding a newer prettier picture quality or better sound or additional features that don't already exist on regular DVDs.
Really? Where did you "ask the market" this question, and get this response? It seems completely contradictory to the number of people buying HDTVs, progressive-scan DVD players, and yes, high-def disc players. At the very least, the adoption of these current formats is going faster than the adoption of Betamax/VHS in the old days, due to price.
With DVD-R camcorders now catching on in the consumer market, there's an even more compelling reason to stick with the older technology.
Complete and total nonsense. Both highdef formats will playback DVDs just fine.
There may be a new format in the future but it's too soon and not advanced enough to take over the market. There will be a niche market for them just like Laserdisc for the true videophiles but that's all.
You could certainly have made all these same points to justify why you thought DVDs wouldn't overtake VHS.
If you've got nothing else, I'm going to point and laugh at you now...
Bio Diesel is obtained from a variety of sources, not just corn.
Ethanol is obtained from a variety of sources, not just corn.
Bio Diesel is 100% compatible with any diesel engine on the market today.
Biodiesel freezes at a much lower tempurature than diesel, so it needs just as much vehicle conversion as a gasoline engine does to run E85. Also, 30% Ethanol is 100% compatible with any gasoline engine on the market today.
Bio Diesel is bio-degradable. Bio Diesel is non-toxic.
Ethanol too.
Bio Diesel doesn't blow up.
Water doesn't blow up... Anything flamable, however, does. Even crude oil will "blow up", and it's far less flamable than bio diesel.
Bio Diesel has a 2% lower energy density than Diesel. Ethanol is 30% less than Gasoline. This means you pay more at the pump to drive 100 miles.
This is ridiculous. Ethanol has a lower energy density than gasoline, but it's not 30% lower. Also, you're jumping to the conclusion that they will all cost about the same per gallon, which is completely baseless.
Bio Diesel smells like fries, really!
It smells like deep-frier grease. It really doesn't smell like french fries, at least to me (just a trace).
They aren't selling Diesel engines because they don't know how to make small ones.
They aren't selling Diesel engines, because you can only get dirty diesel in the US, and selling diesel cars is actually illegal in states like California because of that.
Personally, I prefer Diesel. It isn't going to explode.
Put water in your gas tank. Energy problems solved.
Gasoline does not explode in the engine either. If it does it is called detonation or knock and will eventually wreck the engine.
No, the term you're thinking of is "premature detonation". "Detonation" would just describe a properly working engine.
it is flame not explosion.
The problem is that you don't seem to KNOW what "explode" really means:
explode
1. To release mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy by the sudden production of gases in a confined space: The bomb exploded.
2. To burst violently as a result of internal pressure.
Whether what happens inside a piston is an "explosion" or an "ignition" is highly subjective and endlessly debatable. Either/both can be called a "flame".
Actually, if you look at the mp3.com case, you'd see that the court found that *none* of the 4 fair use factors went in mp3.com's favor.
Those 4 guidelines really aren't independent. Indeed, the ruling lists the commercial aspect in justifying the other factors as well.
And, of course, it's not a best-of-four guideline. 3 out of 4 can be discounted, and still be ruled fair use. Also, the difference between DVDs and CDs is clear, CSS encryption and the DMCA make it impossibly to legally backup/transcode your own DVDs, unlike CDs.
Look, for example, at BMG v. Gonzalez, 430 F.3d 888, 890, where the court cites to the mp3.com case as "holding that downloads are not fair use even if the downloader already owns one purchased copy."
That ruling also says that NO use of comercially sold copyrighted material can EVER be "non-profit", which was rejected by later court rulings.
BMG itself said that downloading a song is still infringement even if you then buy the song.
You'll have to forgive me if I don't care what a party with a deep vested interest has to say on the matter.
Servers that don't access much of the disk (say, less than 1GB or whatever the size of the flash cache is) the majority of the time would benefit from this the same as laptops, by letting their disks spin down.
First off, they'd barely benefit at all, since that 1GB of data can be easily cached in RAM early on, and served up far faster than this flash drive could possibly hope to do so.
Also, servers that only need 1GB most of the time, generally don't exist. If they did, they would boot from a 1GB CompactFlash card, and have the hard drive (on the secondary ATA bus) spun down.
Also fast restart is especially good for critical servers as a method of reducing both planned and unplanned downtime.
True, but we're talking about a few seconds difference here. Something that matters a lot if your rebooting/hibernating a lot (Notebooks) but wouldn't even be noticed if you're only rebooting once every couple weeks.
Someone will be awfully upset when she makes a final save of her million-dollar PowerPoint presentation for the CEO and discovers that the save is the 100001st write to the hybrid drive.
Yes. Everyone knows flash RAM will explode in a gigantic fireball on the 1st attempt to write to it, once it has gone beyond spec.
The heat and power issues may also make it attractive in server environments.
No, it won't. Servers have large ammounts of system RAM, which is far faster than flash on the hard drive bus could ever be. They also have battery-backed RAID controllers, meaning flash would be a step down, not a step up.
This particular one didn't crash when I tried it, but it does start an unending until you click the 'don't show this anymore' checkbox error message loop
No problems here, with Firefox 1.5.0.2 (javascript disabled) under FreeBSD6.0. In fact, mplayerplug-in loads the clip and plays it just fine.
Are you sure your version of firefox isn't just buggy, or have some odd-ball extension causing rendering problems?
To answer your curiosity, it's just a video of a guy branding a horse, and getting kicked for his trouble. Or as I like to call it, a classy American TV program...
We already see it with the JS popup blockers. Similar security for network accesses should suffice.
At what point do you STOP adding on patches as vunerabilities become known, and give-up on JS as the poorly thought-out and fundamentally insecure standard that it is?
Images are fundamental.
Images are no more a security threat than HTML. Sure, you can have a buffer overflow in an image, but the same goes for HTML code. Javascript is an all-together different animal. It's not being used as buffer overflows and the like are found, it's being used exactly in the way it's supposed to be used, which just happens to be a ridiculous security hole.
Web is not static HTML any more. We now live in the world of DHTML and security is just going to have to deal with it.
I've looked and looked and looked, and I still haven't found ANY SITE which needs user-side scripting. Google Maps is the only thing that comes close, and it would only be a trivial ammount slower if they'd use standard HTML.
All attempts to make web pages into applications have failed, miserably. Javascript's only purpose in life is to remove the button that used-to be beside drop-down menus, and I can certainly live without it, if web designers would just make it an option, rather than everything JS-only, and failing ungracefully.
The reason that it just seems like there is a high ratio of crap is because you only remember the GREAT movies of yesteryear.
I understand the sentiment, but it's just not true.
The B movies were one-off, limited release or straight-to-video affairs, instead of the current crap-line of Hollywood releasing utter crap on thousands of screens, with big-name actors, and advertised to hell and back.
The difference was that you could walk into a movie theatre, buy a ticket for any movie you've ever even remotely heard of, and know it would be worth 2 hours of your time. Now, it's all moot. Not only is advertising independent of quality, but it's usually inversely related to it. A big advertising blits is usually a sign of a BAD movie they are desperate to get people into, while the better movies try depending more on word of mouth.
And, while there have always been crap movies, the ratio (for major-studios, big budgets) has dramatically changed. All the studios have switched to a high-volume, low-budget, low-quality model. The box-office slump is self-fulfilling, herd mentality. They don't want to make movies that are anything but sure-thing, formulaic crap, because of the slump, while the slump exists because of the sure-thing, formulaic crap.
Though you're correct to some extent. This kind of slump HAS happened in the past, such as in the 70s. That went on, right up to the release of Star Wars, which ushered-in our modern concept of theatres and cinema.
I'm tired of digging in the registry, checking the processes for spyware, and all that. I have also tried to educate her about how to use a computer intelligently, but she seems to lack common sense when it comes to what software is suspicious and bloated, and what is trustworthy.
Assuming every other comment here is jumping to the wrong conclusion... Perhaps your sister is incompotent, ignorant, and frustrated, rather than actually evil and malicious?
For the most illiterate of computer users, I've found that making shortcuts to the important maintenance apps (antispyware, antivirus, defrag, Windows update, etc.) in a single "Monthly Maintenance" folder on the desktop, and replacing the IE icon with a link to Firefox (perhaps named "Internet Explorer", with the IE icon, in the worst cases) solves all the ignorance and incompotence problems. Now, if person X won't do that simple and basic task every month, THEN you can really assume the worst, and dump them on their ass (for their own good, as much as yours) as every other comment here has suggested.
She blames the computer I built [...] yet it works flawlessly once I start using her old computer after she has upgraded.
That one I can't account for. You really need to find out what the problem is. Arogance and condecention can cause intelligent people to ignore REAL problems, just because the user's poor description of the problem happens to sound dubious.
The ONE THING this sounds similar to, is people not knowing the difference between a Network/Website problem, and a computer problem. I find it's absolutely necessary to explain that things that happen while using the internet are NOT computer problems, and may solve themselves in a few days. That takes care of the ads that look like pop-up system error messages...
Most of the video, however, was of the crew watching thermal imaging of a couple having sex in the back seat of a convertible. So, if you think your military isn't spying on you as a civilian,
Being in public eliminates most of your rights to privacy. The fact that someone who happens to be employed by the government is trying out their new nightvision gear, and just happens to see people doing something, IS NOT what most people consider "spying".
It showed people running for cover and the crew gunning them down, and it went for a good 5-10 minutes. They didn't appear to have any weapons, and were trying to hide behind walls and such (which didn't work since the gunship was circling.)
And you're a professional imaging analyist, and are sure you would have spotted weapons (despite them not giving off any heat, therefore not showing on thermal imaging), despite the (presumably) low-res of these videos you found? I ask because that statement is notably absent from your post.
There was no hate or malice- just very sickening joy on the part of those watching a video screen and plugging real people with real bullets and shells from miles away up in the sky.
You should work in a hospital for a few months. What you have quoted is polite by comparison to what you'll hear from doctors working around human gore, suffering, and misery, all day, every day. It's both a necessity to be frank, and a coping mechanism when dealing with that kind of task for long periods of time.
The problem with the internet is that you have no way to tell if a message came for a 7 year-old kid, someone who is mentally handicapped, some foreigner who can hardly understand the language, etc. I certainly don't believe those messages are representative of the public at large.
It is just that General Relativity has been tested and tested (we we keep on doing it) and the results always back it up.
Umm, not when it comes to black holes. The equations return complete nonsense when dealing with ultra-massive, but ultra-compact objects. That's why Einstein spent the last decades of his life trying to figure out how Quantum Mechanics and Relativity could be unified to address this issue.
Black holes, more than almost ANY other observed phenomena, are only barely understood, and open to any new theories.
The "missing" ~95% of mass in the universe (dark matter/energy theory) is probably #1, though.
Nothing in the attached article indicates this is true. It is merely one person's opinion that all supposed black holes are instead MECOs
You got modded up for this crap?
From TFA:
According to the MECO theory, objects in our universe can never actually collapse to form black holes. When an object gets very dense and hot, subatomic particles start popping in and out of existence inside it in huge numbers, producing copious amounts of radiation. Outward pressure from this radiation halts the collapse so the object remains a hot ball of plasma rather than becoming a black hole.
That paper includes in the price of a gallon of GASOLINE, the cost of BUILDING ROADS and BRIDGES, Federal regulation and oversight programs (which are paid for by the oil companies' 11% taxes), the cost of maintaining AN ARMY, which is absolutely ridiculous to charge only the oil companies for. Most of the claims are even more shaky... Putting a dollar value on the global warming caused by oil, complete nonsense like "aesthetic degradation of cultural sites (up to $11.7 billion), social deterioration (up to $58.4 billion)", "travel delays due to road congestion ($46.5 to $174.6 billion), uncompensated damages caused by car accidents ($18.3 to $77.2)" etc.
These are PATENTLY ridiculous claims. You might as well include the ammount Americans annually spend on automobiles ($XXX billions) and add it to the cost of a gallon of gasoline. It's absolutely ridiculous nonsense in the most extreme way.
I'm inclined to put the figure about where the EU's got it, at $6/gal.
European gas prices are so high, not because that's what it costs them (your ridiculous assertion) but because they WANT to discourage driving, so they levy huge taxes against it.
If it will make you feel better, I can put up a website with the EXACT OPPOSITE information, put together with equally ridiculous facts and methodology, that says gas should be practically free, if not for governments doing so much taxing and restricting.
Whatever your political slant, the ends (alternative fuels) do NOT justify the means (blatantly making facts up).
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They are continually building fabs, they have contracts with 3rd parties to supply cores if they can't meet demand, and are now taking on ATI as well.
Intel is the one that has had recent supply problems. Their serious chipset shortages at the end of 2005 seriously raised prices, and forced many companies to go elsewhere.
I can see this happening in some areas, but certainly not ALL of them.
Who in Oklahoma is going to pay to build the huge towers needed for carrying the signal across the state? In other areas, you may be able to get a sliver of property on the tops of mountains, and have reasonably short distances between dense population centers to connect, but in most of the US, I don't see this happening in a non-profit way. Forget about intercontinental links.
Then there's jamming... Since 802.11 uses unlicensed spectrum, anyone interested in severing your connection can park a van with a 2.4GHz transmitter wherever they want, for as long as they want, and you can't do anything to stop them (other than a concerted effort by everyone to use highly-directional antennas).
How about routing? Who's going to pay for the (entrusted) routers to manage this mess of every-node-is-a-hop massive routing table? The only alternative would be every individual computer keeping the FULL routing table of every node in the world, keeping track of every node that goes offline or comes online, and hoping none of that changes once you've sent your packet on it's way.
How about latency? Even assuming ideal routing, you can just forget about gaming and VoIP calls if you've got 500 hops between the endpoints. It would practically require a return to the BBS days, and eliminate many benefits of the current internet.
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I think a far more practical solution is to get a bunch of people together, and start-up your own (modest) telco.
I imagine that it'd cause me to cry.
You wouldn't happen to be The Devil, would you?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/10/09
Both have their advantages and disadvantages.
COFDM seems to be slightly better with multipath, and mobile reception, but those problems are starting to be improved upon as the recievers continue to develop.
8VSB has a range and power advantage over COFDM, although that may also potentially be improved upon as transmitters continue to develop.
Additionally, the ATSC standard requires AC3, which is technically superior (quality/bitrate) to MP2 which is most commonly used with DTV in other countries.
BluRay IS the technically superior technology. It stores 25GBs per layer, instead of 15 like HD-DVD. It has (and requires) a strong scratch-resistant coating on it. It uses all the same video/audio codecs as HD-DVD. It has a much more advanced Java menu system. etc.
Not even remotely true. There were several different attempts at home video systems at the time, not just projectors.
Non-projected holographic film like EVR (worked like video cassettes) predated Betamax. Early tape formats like Sony's CV2000 and U-Matic, CartriVision, InstaVideo, etc., all pre-dated Betamax. Disc-based systems like CED and LaserDiscs were also in competition the early days.
Today, we have far fewer formats competing. Blu-ray, HD-DVD, D-VHS/D-Theatre, and WMVHD DVDs seem to be the only options. (Though I'd love to hear of any other niche technologies currently or previous out there)
Really? Where did you "ask the market" this question, and get this response? It seems completely contradictory to the number of people buying HDTVs, progressive-scan DVD players, and yes, high-def disc players. At the very least, the adoption of these current formats is going faster than the adoption of Betamax/VHS in the old days, due to price.
Complete and total nonsense. Both highdef formats will playback DVDs just fine.
You could certainly have made all these same points to justify why you thought DVDs wouldn't overtake VHS.
If you've got nothing else, I'm going to point and laugh at you now...
Ethanol is obtained from a variety of sources, not just corn.
Biodiesel freezes at a much lower tempurature than diesel, so it needs just as much vehicle conversion as a gasoline engine does to run E85. Also, 30% Ethanol is 100% compatible with any gasoline engine on the market today.
Ethanol too.
Water doesn't blow up... Anything flamable, however, does. Even crude oil will "blow up", and it's far less flamable than bio diesel.
This is ridiculous. Ethanol has a lower energy density than gasoline, but it's not 30% lower. Also, you're jumping to the conclusion that they will all cost about the same per gallon, which is completely baseless.
It smells like deep-frier grease. It really doesn't smell like french fries, at least to me (just a trace).
They aren't selling Diesel engines, because you can only get dirty diesel in the US, and selling diesel cars is actually illegal in states like California because of that.
Put water in your gas tank. Energy problems solved.
No, the term you're thinking of is "premature detonation". "Detonation" would just describe a properly working engine.
The problem is that you don't seem to KNOW what "explode" really means:
explode
1. To release mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy by the sudden production of gases in a confined space: The bomb exploded.
2. To burst violently as a result of internal pressure.
Whether what happens inside a piston is an "explosion" or an "ignition" is highly subjective and endlessly debatable. Either/both can be called a "flame".
Haven't had a chance to read it yet, have you?
Unfortunately, it's just a "How to _use an antenna_" article.
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For my next slashdot article, I'll talk about poor radio reception, and ways to fix it.
Those 4 guidelines really aren't independent. Indeed, the ruling lists the commercial aspect in justifying the other factors as well.
And, of course, it's not a best-of-four guideline. 3 out of 4 can be discounted, and still be ruled fair use. Also, the difference between DVDs and CDs is clear, CSS encryption and the DMCA make it impossibly to legally backup/transcode your own DVDs, unlike CDs.
That ruling also says that NO use of comercially sold copyrighted material can EVER be "non-profit", which was rejected by later court rulings.
You'll have to forgive me if I don't care what a party with a deep vested interest has to say on the matter.
First off, they'd barely benefit at all, since that 1GB of data can be easily cached in RAM early on, and served up far faster than this flash drive could possibly hope to do so.
Also, servers that only need 1GB most of the time, generally don't exist. If they did, they would boot from a 1GB CompactFlash card, and have the hard drive (on the secondary ATA bus) spun down.
True, but we're talking about a few seconds difference here. Something that matters a lot if your rebooting/hibernating a lot (Notebooks) but wouldn't even be noticed if you're only rebooting once every couple weeks.
Yes. Everyone knows flash RAM will explode in a gigantic fireball on the 1st attempt to write to it, once it has gone beyond spec.
No, it won't. Servers have large ammounts of system RAM, which is far faster than flash on the hard drive bus could ever be. They also have battery-backed RAID controllers, meaning flash would be a step down, not a step up.
This is only really useful in notebooks.
No problems here, with Firefox 1.5.0.2 (javascript disabled) under FreeBSD6.0. In fact, mplayerplug-in loads the clip and plays it just fine.
Are you sure your version of firefox isn't just buggy, or have some odd-ball extension causing rendering problems?
To answer your curiosity, it's just a video of a guy branding a horse, and getting kicked for his trouble. Or as I like to call it, a classy American TV program...
Never heard of Windows, have you?
At what point does continually patching and repatching a fundamentially insecure technology become futile?
At what point do you STOP adding on patches as vunerabilities become known, and give-up on JS as the poorly thought-out and fundamentally insecure standard that it is?
Images are no more a security threat than HTML. Sure, you can have a buffer overflow in an image, but the same goes for HTML code. Javascript is an all-together different animal. It's not being used as buffer overflows and the like are found, it's being used exactly in the way it's supposed to be used, which just happens to be a ridiculous security hole.
I've looked and looked and looked, and I still haven't found ANY SITE which needs user-side scripting. Google Maps is the only thing that comes close, and it would only be a trivial ammount slower if they'd use standard HTML.
All attempts to make web pages into applications have failed, miserably. Javascript's only purpose in life is to remove the button that used-to be beside drop-down menus, and I can certainly live without it, if web designers would just make it an option, rather than everything JS-only, and failing ungracefully.
A little lesson on the english language...
"OR" means that, you have two, mutually exclusive options to chose from.
Example: The B movies were one-off, limited release OR straight-to-video affairs
You're right... Sometimes the original films are are just as bad...
Evilviper's Law: 90% of Sturgeon's Law citations are crap.
If you really are stuck on Sturgeon's Law, let's just say that the top 10% used-to be far BETTER than the current top 10% (which is now 90% crap).
I understand the sentiment, but it's just not true.
The B movies were one-off, limited release or straight-to-video affairs, instead of the current crap-line of Hollywood releasing utter crap on thousands of screens, with big-name actors, and advertised to hell and back.
The difference was that you could walk into a movie theatre, buy a ticket for any movie you've ever even remotely heard of, and know it would be worth 2 hours of your time. Now, it's all moot. Not only is advertising independent of quality, but it's usually inversely related to it. A big advertising blits is usually a sign of a BAD movie they are desperate to get people into, while the better movies try depending more on word of mouth.
And, while there have always been crap movies, the ratio (for major-studios, big budgets) has dramatically changed. All the studios have switched to a high-volume, low-budget, low-quality model. The box-office slump is self-fulfilling, herd mentality. They don't want to make movies that are anything but sure-thing, formulaic crap, because of the slump, while the slump exists because of the sure-thing, formulaic crap.
Though you're correct to some extent. This kind of slump HAS happened in the past, such as in the 70s. That went on, right up to the release of Star Wars, which ushered-in our modern concept of theatres and cinema.
Assuming every other comment here is jumping to the wrong conclusion... Perhaps your sister is incompotent, ignorant, and frustrated, rather than actually evil and malicious?
For the most illiterate of computer users, I've found that making shortcuts to the important maintenance apps (antispyware, antivirus, defrag, Windows update, etc.) in a single "Monthly Maintenance" folder on the desktop, and replacing the IE icon with a link to Firefox (perhaps named "Internet Explorer", with the IE icon, in the worst cases) solves all the ignorance and incompotence problems. Now, if person X won't do that simple and basic task every month, THEN you can really assume the worst, and dump them on their ass (for their own good, as much as yours) as every other comment here has suggested.
That one I can't account for. You really need to find out what the problem is. Arogance and condecention can cause intelligent people to ignore REAL problems, just because the user's poor description of the problem happens to sound dubious.
The ONE THING this sounds similar to, is people not knowing the difference between a Network/Website problem, and a computer problem. I find it's absolutely necessary to explain that things that happen while using the internet are NOT computer problems, and may solve themselves in a few days. That takes care of the ads that look like pop-up system error messages...
Being in public eliminates most of your rights to privacy. The fact that someone who happens to be employed by the government is trying out their new nightvision gear, and just happens to see people doing something, IS NOT what most people consider "spying".
And you're a professional imaging analyist, and are sure you would have spotted weapons (despite them not giving off any heat, therefore not showing on thermal imaging), despite the (presumably) low-res of these videos you found? I ask because that statement is notably absent from your post.
You should work in a hospital for a few months. What you have quoted is polite by comparison to what you'll hear from doctors working around human gore, suffering, and misery, all day, every day. It's both a necessity to be frank, and a coping mechanism when dealing with that kind of task for long periods of time.
Not funny, not sad, just a waste of time.
The problem with the internet is that you have no way to tell if a message came for a 7 year-old kid, someone who is mentally handicapped, some foreigner who can hardly understand the language, etc. I certainly don't believe those messages are representative of the public at large.
Umm, not when it comes to black holes. The equations return complete nonsense when dealing with ultra-massive, but ultra-compact objects. That's why Einstein spent the last decades of his life trying to figure out how Quantum Mechanics and Relativity could be unified to address this issue.
Black holes, more than almost ANY other observed phenomena, are only barely understood, and open to any new theories.
The "missing" ~95% of mass in the universe (dark matter/energy theory) is probably #1, though.
You got modded up for this crap?
From TFA:
congestion ($46.5 to $174.6 billion), uncompensated
damages caused by car accidents ($18.3 to $77.2)" etc.
These are PATENTLY ridiculous claims. You might as well include the ammount Americans annually spend on automobiles ($XXX billions) and add it to the cost of a gallon of gasoline. It's absolutely ridiculous nonsense in the most extreme way.
European gas prices are so high, not because that's what it costs them (your ridiculous assertion) but because they WANT to discourage driving, so they levy huge taxes against it.
If it will make you feel better, I can put up a website with the EXACT OPPOSITE information, put together with equally ridiculous facts and methodology, that says gas should be practically free, if not for governments doing so much taxing and restricting.
Whatever your political slant, the ends (alternative fuels) do NOT justify the means (blatantly making facts up).